Re: [bug-gawk] Gawk manual:some comments

[Hermann Peifer]

Thanks for fixing the URLs. About this one:

> > b) section 15.4.1.1: printf("%0.17g, %0.17g\n", x, y)
> >
> > I wonder if the width of '0' is really needed here, in particular as the
> > context mentions "%.17g" instead.
>
> The 0 is a flag, meaning padd with with zeros.

Indeed, now I know. In a mail that somehow did not get through to 
bug-gawk, Nelson H. F. Beebe mentioned a few days ago:

> That 0 is not the field width, but rather the 0-flag
> (...)
> However, Hermann is correct in pointing out that, because the field
> width is at its default minimum size, no zero filling is possible.

Anyway, it's a small issue.

Hermann