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doc, util, console: clarify ambiguous docs
nattelog Jul 1, 2017
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doc: combine mentions on excessive arguments
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4 changes: 1 addition & 3 deletions doc/api/console.md
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// Prints: count: 5, to stdout
```

If formatting elements (e.g. `%d`) are not found in the first string then
[`util.inspect()`][] is called on each argument and the resulting string
values are concatenated. See [`util.format()`][] for more information.
See [`util.format()`][] for more information.

### console.time(label)
<!-- YAML
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11 changes: 6 additions & 5 deletions doc/api/util.md
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// Returns: 'foo:%s'
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If there are more arguments passed to the `util.format()` method than the
number of placeholders, the extra arguments are coerced into strings (for
objects and symbols, `util.inspect()` is used) then concatenated to the
returned string, each delimited by a space.
If there are more arguments passed to the `util.format()` method than the number
of placeholders, the extra arguments are coerced into strings then concatenated
to the returned string, each delimited by a space. Excessive arguments whose
`typeof` is `'object'` or `'symbol'` (except `null`) will be transformed by
`util.inspect()`.

```js
util.format('%s:%s', 'foo', 'bar', 'baz'); // 'foo:bar baz'
```

If the first argument is not a format string then `util.format()` returns
If the first argument is not a string then `util.format()` returns
a string that is the concatenation of all arguments separated by spaces.
Each argument is converted to a string using `util.inspect()`.

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