doc: fix format docs discrepancy

Only objects and symbols use `util.inspect`, others are simply concatenated. Fixes: #935 PR-URL: #1255 Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <[email protected]>
nodejs · Mar 25, 2015 · 4581421 · 4581421
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diff --git a/doc/api/util.markdown b/doc/api/util.markdown
@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ not replaced.
     util.format('%s:%s', 'foo'); // 'foo:%s'
 
 If there are more arguments than placeholders, the extra arguments are
-converted to strings with `util.inspect()` and these strings are concatenated,
-delimited by a space.
+coerced to strings (for objects and symbols, `util.inspect()` is used)
+and then concatenated, delimited by a space.
 
     util.format('%s:%s', 'foo', 'bar', 'baz'); // 'foo:bar baz'