Bug 7877 – std.string.format does not support positional arguments

import std.string; import std.stdio; void main() { // ok writefln("%1$s %2$s", 2, 1); // std.format.FormatException@std\format.d(4562): formatArg string s = format("%1$s %2$s", 2, 1); }

That code gives me this output: 2 1 std.format.FormatException@std\format.d(4906): formatArg ---------------- ---------------- Such error messages must be improved, they are essentially like the error messages without line number (that Don regards of very high importance in Bugzilla). How do you find errors in a large program with no line number and no usable stack trace? Maybe if not already present this needs to become another Bugzilla entry.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 4532 ***