Issue 5065 - Format specifier must be '%s' for some types #1079
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http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5065
Essentially the issue is that a format specifier such as
%f
doesn't make sense for aggregate types unless they define thetoString
version of the function which takes a format specifier (they can throw internally if they want to on invalid specs).