Is this bug ? format %(%)

Meta jared771 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 7 18:35:40 UTC 2021


On Wednesday, 7 April 2021 at 17:31:09 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> On Wednesday, 7 April 2021 at 17:04:56 UTC, novice2 wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 7 April 2021 at 13:43:18 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
>>> So, you should change your code to
>>>
>>>     writefln("%-(%s, %)", s);
>>
>> sorry i dont read docs so carefully
>> thanks
>
> It's not your fault--this is a pretty obscure feature, and it's 
> not documented very well. Even after you've found the correct 
> page in the documentation (the page for `formattedWrite` [1]), 
> you have to scroll down past multiple examples to find the text 
> that explains it.
>
> [1] https://dlang.org/phobos/std_format.html#formattedWrite

I have created a pull request that will hopefully make this more 
prominent on the doc page:
https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/7944


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