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diff --git a/doc/gawk.texi b/doc/gawk.texi index 7eb90db2..b0b4d3d0 100644 --- a/doc/gawk.texi +++ b/doc/gawk.texi @@ -9705,7 +9705,7 @@ printf "%4.3f", 1950 @end example @noindent -prints @samp{1950.000}, with a total of four significant figures, three of +prints @samp{1950.000}, with a minimum of four significant figures, three of which follow the decimal point. (The @samp{4.3} represents two modifiers, discussed in the next @value{SUBSECTION}.) @@ -31131,6 +31131,12 @@ Evaluate @var{awk statements} in the context of the running program. You can do anything that an @command{awk} program would do: assign values to variables, call functions, and so on. +@quotation NOTE +Do to implementation constraintss, using @code{eval} to call a +user-defined function that returns a value does not work, generating +an error message. We hope to one day remove this constraint. +@end quotation + @item @code{eval} @var{param}, @dots{} @itemx @var{awk statements} @itemx @code{end} |