bufPrint bug workaround

[Sze]

I think I would define and use a format function instead and then just print the object in whatever way is appropriate. With the writer you don’t have to pre-decide whether you want to use a buffer or not and your code stays agnostic.
This post is a good description:

Idiomatic Complex Formatting

The idiomatic way of implementing custom formatting would be to implement a format function. std.fmt.format, which std.debug.print and other formatting functions that take a format string with placeholders are derived from, has this to say in its doc comment: If a formatted user type contains a function of the type pub fn format( value: ?, comptime fmt: []const u8, options: std.fmt.FormatOptions, writer: anytype, ) !void with ? being the type formatted, this function will be call…