util: use minimal object inspection with %s specifier by BridgeAR · Pull Request #26927 · nodejs/node (original) (raw)

This improves util.format() by returning more meaningful results
when using %s as specifier and any object as value. Besides that
BigInt will also be represented with an n at the end to indicate
that it's of type BigInt.

@Trott @vsemozhetbyt the documentation does not seem very intuitive
and I fail to find brief words to describe everything properly. It would
be great if you could have a look to suggest improvements.

Most format or inspect changes are treated as patch but this could
be considered semver-major even though I doubt that it would break anything. I would like to get the opinion of others on that and I'll trigger CITGM to see if anything pops up.

CITGM https://ci.nodejs.org/view/Node.js-citgm/job/citgm-smoker/1777/

Checklist

• make -j4 test (UNIX), or vcbuild test (Windows) passes
• tests and/or benchmarks are included
• documentation is changed or added
• commit message follows commit guidelines