Yes, that's a limitation of std.format. It only provides the character ('x', 'd', 's', etc). The same thing applies to std.complex.
Comment #2 by bearophile_hugs — 2011-02-17T01:58:36Z
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> Yes, that's a limitation of std.format.
If that's a limitation meant to stay, then writef is better to give a format error (possibly at compile-time!).
Comment #3 by clugdbug — 2011-02-17T04:29:48Z
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> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Yes, that's a limitation of std.format.
>
> If that's a limitation meant to stay, then writef is better to give a format
> error (possibly at compile-time!).
Of course it's not meant to stay.