#fmt strings should allow index of argument, count, and precision to be specified

[brson]

printf allows things like "%_d", "%2$_1$d" to allow its arguments to be used as the count/precision, etc.

[nikomatsakis]

I suppose this is still relevant, though I think we plan to revamp fmt! somewhat so it is a bit more modern and not so tied to printf.

[bstrie]

@nikomatsakis By "revamp" are you referring to a rewrite of the implementation, or a full-fledged change to the design, e.g. to something like C#'s (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.string.format.aspx?cs-save-lang=1&cs-lang=csharp) ? If the latter, is there a bug for that?

[nikomatsakis]

I was thinking of this mailing list thread that sort of crashed on the rocks of i18n. I don't know that there is a bug for this.

[huonw]

@nikomatsakis it also crashed on the rocks of @Aatch and I having non-Rust work and generally getting distracted. (It's something I'm planning to come back to, not sure about @Aatch.) But the work we've done so far is in this branch.

(We were both "ignoring" the i18n stuff, working on the assumption that that would be a heavier weight interface to writing output, and that a printf-style one is still desired.)

[nikomatsakis]

@nikomatsakis it also crashed on the rocks of @Aatch and I having non-Rust work and generally getting distracted. (It's something I'm planning to come back to, not sure about @Aatch.) But the work we've done so far is in this branch.

cool, I liked the direction you guys were going in.