From: Carlos <angus@...>
Date: 2006-08-19T10:19:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug in sprintf?

[Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com>, 2006-08-19 00.27 CEST]
> Carlos wrote:
> >
> >>         If _arg_ is a +String+, leading radix indicators (+0+, +0b+, and
> >>         +0x+) are honored.
> >
> >[...]
> >
> >>so it's expected, documented, and consistent with c.
> >
> >
> >It is not expected, nor documented, because the documentation of sprintf 
> >says:
> >             d   | Convert argument as a decimal number.
> >
> >...which is very explicit in that the argument will be interpreted as a 
> >decimal number, not octal.
> 
> The string of characters is interpreted as a decimal number IF IT IS
> one. Since you started it with a zero, it's octal.

It's a string... I wanted this string formatted as a decimal number. Just
put these digits right justified in that other string. All this
behind-the-scenes conversion to integer is an implementation detail I should
not care about.

For that conversion, #to_i could have been used as well, and then '09' would
be interpreted as decimal 9. Why should I expect my string to be passed
through Integer() before formatting? That is not documented.

So, I expected
  sprintf "%02d", "09" # => "09"

I see that none of you (except Wes) expected that, so, OK, my expectations
should be wrong. I really didn't expect _that_ (but I'm bad on expectations
:), I supposed that my expectations would be the majority, or that at
least 50% would expect something like #to_i.

But everyone expected Integer() and Integer() is what is used, and this took
nobody by surprise, so it's OK, I guess :)

Greetings.