Curious Omission In New-Style Formats

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wednesday 13 July 2016 17:05, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

> On Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at 6:22:31 PM UTC+12, Ian wrote:
> 
>> I never claimed it's not useful. I don't really have a problem with
>> format supporting it, either. But if it does, then don't call it
>> "precision".
> 
> Like it or not, that is the accepted term, as used in the printf(3) man page.
> 
> Feel free not to use common accepted terms if you don’t want. You can use
> words to mean whatever you avocado, but don’t expect other people to carrot.

+1 QOTW


-- 
Steve