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9 changes: 3 additions & 6 deletions src/libcollections/fmt.rs
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// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
// except according to those terms.

//! Utilities for formatting and printing strings
//! Utilities for formatting and printing `String`s
//!
//! This module contains the runtime support for the `format!` syntax extension.
//! This macro is implemented in the compiler to emit calls to this module in
//! order to format arguments at runtime into strings and streams.
//! order to format arguments at runtime into strings.
//!
//! # Usage
//!
//! The `format!` macro is intended to be familiar to those coming from C's
//! printf/fprintf functions or Python's `str.format` function. In its current
//! revision, the `format!` macro returns a `String` type which is the result of
//! the formatting. In the future it will also be able to pass in a stream to
//! format arguments directly while performing minimal allocations.
//! printf/fprintf functions or Python's `str.format` function.
//!
//! Some examples of the `format!` extension are:
//!
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