overcomming inconsistent behaviour of format for array

[berni44]

On Thursday, 26 December 2019 at 13:15:15 UTC, rikki cattermole 
wrote:
> With changing formattedWrite, we have to consider printf for 
> what we support. This isn't about D, its about historical (and 
> current) C code unfortunately.

Why? Are there any reasons, why we need to stick with what printf 
does? Can't we do it better than printf? As far as I know, we 
allready do some stuff that printf can't, while we forego other 
things that printf does...