<pad> results are different when using or not using a variable

[altoclef]

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$string = 'abcd';
    $r1 = "<pad 12>abcd";         //  8 spaces, then the string (12 characters in total)
    $r2 = "<pad 12>$string";      // 12 spaces, then the variable

    text "$r1<crlf>$r2";

(v26.90.0200)

(EDIT: Correct the first comment, which incorrectly referred to "the variable")

[admin]

Interesting bug! Fixed in next beta.

[altoclef]

Confirm fixed in v26.90.0206. Thank you.

However, this is a breaking change as some existing scripts using <pad> will now work differently from previously. In fact, I wonder whether most of those existing scripts will now break, as use with a variable value must be more common than without. (I know that <pad> is also used in Batch Rename so perhaps script usage is much less common than in that.)

I don't have any affected scripts as I've only just discovered <pad> so I'm OK, thanks . However, others may be affected. Would it be helpful for the release notes to mention that this is a breaking change?

[admin]

It's clearly a bug fix. So it's not a breaking change, it's a fixing change.