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Ambiguity in docs on console.log and util.format #6341
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@nodejs/documentation |
Has anybody done some work on this issue? I would love to start contributing to this project and this seems like a good start. Is it possible to get help if needed? |
@nattelog If I recall correctly, no, nobody works on this. You can open a PR with a proposed additions to the doc and we can have all the discussion/corrections there, also you can ask any preliminary questions here. |
@vsemozhetbyt I do not quite understand the ambiguity here or how your test code confirms it. What are your expected outputs from the test? For me (given a quick look) it seems legit? Or what am I missing? |
@nattelog I mean the doc probably should warn that output depends not only on a format of a first string but also on that if it is a string at all. |
If I get it right, we have 3 cases with arguments:
> console.log('str%d', 1);
str1
> console.log('str', 1);
str 1
> console.log(1, 'str');
1 'str' |
Here is a fragment from
console
docs:Here is a slightly different fragment from
util
docs:However, the behavior of both functions differs not only due to a presence of
%
elements in the string. According to the code (if I get it right), the behavior diverges due to merelytypeof
of the first argument.Here is a test code with output confusing for the naive reader (including me):
The output:
The first block shows the elements for future concatenation. The second and third ones show the output of differently disposed arguments, with none of the strings containing the
%
format elements.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: