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| author | Steve Klabnik <steve@steveklabnik.com> | 2015-05-19 18:38:53 -0400 |
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| committer | Steve Klabnik <steve@steveklabnik.com> | 2015-05-19 18:38:53 -0400 |
| commit | 6fc93b85bcc3d8a038e4c523ad56cbe54d40ebcc (patch) | |
| tree | 4cd95ca67708794ea3a04a8bab88c4f8f8bed4f3 | |
| parent | 1bcfe5e5ad61e23475dd980288516db6e994bcdc (diff) | |
| parent | 733e7eea5c459c67173e369c1deac3bcde8f03ef (diff) | |
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Rollup merge of #25602 - parkr:patch-1, r=alexcrichton
Padding and alignment are often not implemented by types and can cause confusion in the user. Per discussion with @alexcrichton, here is my PR. /cc https://github.com/rust-lang/time/issues/98
| -rw-r--r-- | src/libcollections/fmt.rs | 4 |
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diff --git a/src/libcollections/fmt.rs b/src/libcollections/fmt.rs index 80fa6d397c8..cb023bcb7a5 100644 --- a/src/libcollections/fmt.rs +++ b/src/libcollections/fmt.rs @@ -353,6 +353,10 @@ //! * `^` - the argument is center-aligned in `width` columns //! * `>` - the argument is right-aligned in `width` columns //! +//! Note that alignment may not be implemented by some types. A good way +//! to ensure padding is applied is to format your input, then use this +//! resulting string to pad your output. +//! //! ## Sign/#/0 //! //! These can all be interpreted as flags for a particular formatter. |