[m-dev.] for review: string__fmt

[Fergus Henderson]

On 10-Aug-2000, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> Apart from that, this looks fine now.

Sorry, I spoke a little to soon.
There are several things that still need to be fixed:

	- It needs to pass the test cases.
	  Currently the string__format test cases are failing.

	- If the changes are sufficiently large that they might reasonably
	  be expected to cause backwards compatibility problems, then
	  even though interface design principles suggest we should only
	  have one string formatting function, the way we should achieve
	  that while retaining backwards compatibility is to give the
	  new code a new name and to deprecate the old version,
	  giving it a `pragma obsolete' declaration, rather than
	  removing it.  (Sorry I wasn't clear about this earlier.)
	  As I understand things, the changes to string__format are indeed
	  such that they might well cause backwards compatiblity problems
	  for our existing users.  Is that correct?

	- Any interface changes should be mentioned in the NEWS file.
	  This includes the change to string__append_list, as well
	  as the changes to string__format and/or string__fmt.

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