[m-dev.] for review: string__fmt

[Tyson Dowd]

On 08-Aug-2000, Peter Ross <peter.ross at miscrit.be> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 12:59:32PM +1000, Tyson Dowd wrote:
> 
> It works by taking as many characters as possible from the start of the
> format string which don't consume a poly token.  This guarantees that at
> the start of format_string_2 we have a '%' which will consume a poly
> token.  We then parse this conversion specifier followed by as many
> characters as possible which don't consume a poly token leaving us in
> the same place.
> 
> The lists of characters are constructed to be as long as possible so
> as to reduce the amount of memory allocated.

This should be in comments.

In addition, you should comment what is produced as a result of the
parsing.

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