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Article #14059Re: Manx SDB bug (second try)
From: sullivan - segall
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 1990 03:29
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 1990 03:29
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>-- J. Gregory Noel, UNIX Guru greg@noel.cts.com or greg@noel.uucp
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>(*) Does anybody have a tool that will check formats against the argument
>list and vet that the values are OK? I realize that it cannot be done for
>the general case, but even something that handled the simple cases (fixed
>format string, no calculations in arguments) would be useful. In fact, I'd
>like to see this as something that the Manx compiler offered; it would
>already have the modes of the arguments and it wouldn't be too hard to scan
>the format to see if the items matched.... What'd you think, Mike?
Fortunately MANX already supports just what you are asking for. Check
the 5.0 manual for prototyping. It really does come in handy. -ss
-Sullivan Segall
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