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Printf: positional specifiers do not work #3992

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vicuna opened this issue Mar 26, 2006 · 2 comments
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Printf: positional specifiers do not work #3992

vicuna opened this issue Mar 26, 2006 · 2 comments
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vicuna commented Mar 26, 2006

Original bug ID: 3992
Reporter: @Chris00
Assigned to: @pierreweis
Status: closed (set by @damiendoligez on 2008-09-10T15:36:26Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: minor
Version: 3.09.1
Fixed in version: 3.11+dev
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)
Has duplicate: #4204 #4290
Related to: #4321

Bug description

According to the documentation, Printf.sprintf "%1$i" should be the same as Printf.sprintf "%i" but instead gives:

Printf.sprintf "%1$i";;

Characters 15-21:
Printf.sprintf "%1$i";;
^^^^^^
Bad conversion %$, at char number 0 in format string ``%1$i''
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vicuna commented Apr 5, 2006

Comment author: @pierreweis

Indeed, the documentation is ahead from the typechecker's implementation.
A quick and easy fix is to change the documentation; a better fix would be to get the typechecker correct wrt the [printf] documentation.
I'll give a try to this last option.

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vicuna commented Sep 10, 2008

Comment author: @damiendoligez

Quick fix: remove positional parameters in printf/scanf and their documentation. They will come back when we manage to make them work perfectly.

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