writef format specifier error message

[Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 11/16/2015 10:56 AM, ric maicle wrote:
> I accidentally typed an extra asterisk in the format specifier.
> I know that it is wrong but the error isn't clear about what
> and where the error is.
>
> import std.stdio;
>
> void main()
> {
> writef("%*10s", 100);
> }
>
> and I got the following error message(s):
>
> $ dmd -run writef.d
> std.format.FormatException at std/format.d(978): $ expected

That message can be improved. Please open a bug report:

   https://issues.dlang.org/enter_bug.cgi

Thank you,
Ali