Re: "printf %d ''" should diagnose the empty string

[Oğuz]

On Tuesday, November 26, 2024, Martin D Kealey <martin@kurahaupo.gen.nz>
wrote:

> How about a counter-proposal: when not in POSIX mode, arguments that
> correspond to numeric conversions in printf could be subject to normal
> arithmetic evaluation, so that « printf %d '6*7' » will output “42”.
>

What's the point? Just write `printf %d $((6*7))'. Shouldn't have relied on
undocumented features in the first place though


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Oğuz