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On 2/21/25 7:52 PM, Robert Elz wrote:
| There is no user who would think that using a numbered conversion
| specifier is not an absolute position in the original argument list.
Probably not, but it doesn't matter if the application doesn't mix
numbered and unnumbered conversions, and it s
On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 at 13:48, Phi Debian wrote:
> I also forgot to mention that C99 introduced this
>
>There may be no gaps
>in the numbers of arguments specified using '$'; for example, if
> argu‐
>ments 1 and 3 are specified, argument 2 must also be specified
> some‐
On 2/22/25 12:38 AM, Phi Debian wrote:
The new semantic is simple
- numbered are indexed args access (easy to understand)
- unumbered are counting only the unumbered from the fmt string
This way when you don't mix then the both work as expected.
This isn't unreasonable. coreutils git chose th
On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 2/22/25 12:38 AM, Phi Debian wrote:
>
> > The new semantic is simple
> > - numbered are indexed args access (easy to understand)
> > - unumbered are counting only the unumbered from the fmt string
> >
> > This way when you don't mix then the
