[pro] Final empty parameters to format directives

[Scott L. Burson]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Didier Verna <didier at lrde.epita.fr> wrote:
>
>  I just fell upon a case where implementations seem to differ on what to
> do. The question is how to interpret a format directive in which the
> last parameter is followed by a comma.
>
> I'm willing to report those divergences to the respective
> implementations, but the problem is that I don't really know what to
> report :-) Who's right? No matter how I read the spec, I cannot make a
> decision and it seems to me that this is an unspecified corner case.

One thing you could do is to add a note to this page:

http://www.cliki.net/Proposed%20ANSI%20Revisions%20and%20Clarifications

Even if you don't have a strong opinion on what the spec should say,
you could note that it is underspecified.

-- Scott