th-printf v0.7.0 Release Notes
Release Date: 2019-09-12 // about 3 years ago-
- 🆕 New
%Qand%qformat specifiers accept strict and lazy Text as input respectively. Otherwise they function identically to the%sspecifier. - 🖨 th-printf can now produce lazy Text as well as String, and the improved
internal representation of format strings should slightly increase performance.
- Directly producing Text should now be significantly faster than using the
string formatter and
packing the result, especially with Text format arguments.
- Directly producing Text should now be significantly faster than using the
string formatter and
- ⬇️ Dropped support for GHC < 8.
- 🆕 New
Previous changes from v0.6.0
-
Backported new backpack-based code to pre GHC-8.4 versions.
- 📇 Rename of public modules
- 📜 Parser rewrite
- ⚠ th-printf now prints a warning when given an erroneous format string
- ⚡️ Several printf behaviors have been updated to comply with spec:
x,u, etc. specifiers now only apply to positive integers- Length specifiers are allowed
- ✅ Generated testsuite covers more cases