[m-rev.] for review: mercury implementation of string__format

[Fergus Henderson]

On 22-Nov-2002, Peter Moulder <pmoulder at csse.monash.edu.au> wrote:
> If writing in C, the obvious code would be something like
> 
>   (val < 10
>    ? '0' + val
>    : 'a' - 10 + val)

This assumes that the numeric codes for 'a'-'f' are contiguous,
which is not guaranteed by the C standard, I'm pretty sure.
I think it might fail for EBCDIC systems?

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