On Sat, 1 Dec 2012, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Dec 2012, artur tarassow wrote:
>
>> I observed the following behaviour using current cvs on windows:
>>
>> string foo = "cpi"
>> matrix m1_cpi = I(2)
>> printf "%.3f\n", m1_@foo
>>
>> results in the message "The symbol 'm1_' is undefined". Is this intended or
>> a bug?
>
> Well, up till now our policy has been that in the context of
> printf and sprintf, we do @-string substitution only in the
> format portion of the command line, and not in the arguments
> portion. I think there was a reason for that, but I can't
> reconstruct it right now. Perhaps we're being too
> restrictive; I need to think about it a bit more.
Having thought about this, it seems to me it would be more
consistent to do @-substitution in the arguments to printf and
sprintf. This is now in CVS and snapshots. Please report any
undesirable side effects!