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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Your wish list for Ada 202X
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 18:48:12 +0000 (UTC)
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Date: 2014-03-30T18:48:12+00:00
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Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2014-03-30, Luke A  Guest <laguest@archeia.com> wrote:
>> <francois_fabien@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> One wish to ease Input/output :
>>> To have some equivalent of C primitive : printf("%c %c %c %c %c \n %c %c %c %c %c \n",
>> 
>> God no. This requires parsing the string in every call, the Ada does it no
>> is superior. Plus it requires parameter passing from the right rather than
>> the left.
> 
> Also, I'm not quite sure what you mean by the latter. As far as I can see,
> the parameter passing would be left to right, just as it is in C.
> 
> Simon.


C uses vararga which are passed right to left as the varargs functions use
thus right-ness to determine the number of parameters.

Luke