2012/12/31 Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>:
> Pavel,
>
> * Pavel Stehule (pavel.stehule@gmail.com) wrote:
>> A result from ours previous talk was a completely disabling mixing
>> positional and ordered placeholders - like is requested by man and gcc
>> raises warnings there.
>>
>> But mixing is not explicitly disallowed in doc, and mixing was tested
>> in our regress tests. There are tests where placeholders are mixed -
>> so anybody can use it.
>> select format('Hello %s %1$s %s', 'World', 'Hello again'); -- is
>> enabled and supported and result is expected
>
> Alright, then I agree that raising a warning in that case makes sense
> and let's update the docs to reflect that it shouldn't be done (like
> what glibc/gcc do).
ok, I prepare patch
Regards
Pavel
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stephen