[M3devel] bug in Fmt.F

[Rodney M. Bates]

By my reading, I can see how this fails.  There is an inconsistent
invariant in Fmt.ReadSpec.  However, by reading, and confirmed by experiment,
it should raise Convert.Failed.  Is your loop happening outside the call on
Fmt.F?

On 11/16/2014 04:24 AM, mika at async.caltech.edu wrote:
> Fmt.F("%s","X")
>
> produces "X" (right)
>
> Fmt.F("% %s", "X")
>
> produces "% X" (right)
>
> Fmt.F("%%s", "X")
>
> does not terminate (wrong)--should produce "%X"
>
> to produce "%X" workaround is
>
> Fmt.F("%s%s", "%", "X")
>
> but it really is a bug.
>
>      Mika
>
>

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Rodney Bates
rodney.m.bates at acm.org