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In article <41ondq$kn9@caip.rutgers.edu>,  <halasz@caip.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>It by nou is probablie too late, but this is the big problem with uzing
>string for format.  If a format were a type of its own, and parsd
>(as in Algol 68), the compiler coud match format element and valu or
>variable, and it certainlie would be known what converzions a program
>seeks.  This would make "printf" much nimbler, for one coud be sure
>that onlie the needed is linkd into the runfile (when that indeed is
>the case, not shared librarie), and the types would be matchd.

But this would break one of the best features of printf - you can change
the format strings at runtime.

If you don't see the utility of this, you don't write many utilities.
Most of my output programs take format strings as options.

-s
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