Notes from C++ static analysis

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 6/26/13 10:35 PM, Peter Williams wrote:
> On 27/06/13 14:20, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 01:56:31PM +1000, Peter Williams wrote:
>> [...]
>>> While you're fixing it can you modify it so that the format string
>>> can specify the order in which the arguments are replaced? This is
>>> very important for i18n. I apologize if it can already do this but
>>> I was unable to find any documentation of format()'s format string
>>> other than examples with %s at the appropriate places.
>> [...]
>>
>> You can use positional arguments for this purpose. For example:
>>
>> writefln("%2$s %1$s", "a", "b");
>>
>> outputs "b a".
>
> Yes, I eventually found the documentation in std.format while I expected
> it to be in std.string along with the documentation the format()
> function. A reference to std.format in the documentation for format()
> (in std.string) would be nice.

The only point I'd negotiate would be to not throw with positional 
arguments, and throw with sequential arguments. All code that cares uses 
positional specifiers anyway.

Andrei