From: EGarrulo <egarrulo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Running a preprocessor from GPS?
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 12:54:20 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2015-07-30T12:54:20-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b8842693-fda2-419b-9455-83d7d90d7d99@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mpdtor$72e$2@dont-email.me>
On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 9:27:56 PM UTC+2, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> On 07/30/2015 11:51 AM, EGarrulo wrote:
> >
> > OK. Now please write the code so that it could be easily adapted to a
> > different language by possibly swapping the arguments that are fed to the
> > output string (this may not cover all existing languages, but it could be good
> > enough). I would reimplement Printf to accept a format with positional
> > arguments, like "Mr %1 you have won %2 dollars!\n". Then I would define a new
> > format string for the alternative output and I would be done. This was
> > possible because a solution based on a formatting procedure recognizes that
> > output should easily adaptable, something that hard-coded concatenations of
> > strings are not.
>
> Why should I? That's not the problem you presented and I responded to. First a
> strawman and now a non-sequitur. Clearly you have no argument.
I had already explained in this discussion why I think that the "Printf"
solution is preferable:
Thanks to its format string, "printf" lets you see
at a glance what the output will look like. On the contrary,
solutions in Ada -- that involve more than simple string
concatenation -- tend to obscure what the final result will look
like, and are cumbersome both to write and to read.
--
Now, multiply this for all the times that your program needs
to print formatted text... Not to mention that the order of the
arguments is hard-coded in the valid Ada snippet, whilst you could
need a different order to support formatted output in different
languages.
If I don't repeat my arguments, it is because doing so would be redundant, not
because I am playing fancy tricks to win an argument. So... have you got an
alternative to propose, or do you agree that "Printf" is a more flexible
approach? Before you reply, I am adding that I have already proposed a
specification of Printf that takes an array of strings as the arguments to its
format string, so that formatting can be done outside, and be customized for
new types. Actually, I think that such a function should become
standard, because it would integrate well with existing functions (like
To_Picture).
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2015-07-27 14:28 Running a preprocessor from GPS? EGarrulo
2015-07-27 16:47 ` David Botton
2015-07-27 17:17 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-27 20:26 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-27 21:14 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-07-27 22:23 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-28 7:23 ` Simon Wright
2015-07-28 11:36 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-28 21:12 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-28 22:11 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-28 22:41 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-29 9:52 ` G.B.
2015-07-29 20:32 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-29 22:32 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-29 23:51 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-07-30 0:10 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-30 6:01 ` Niklas Holsti
2015-07-30 7:33 ` Björn Lundin
2015-07-30 8:03 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-30 8:08 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2015-07-30 8:37 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-30 8:49 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-07-30 12:15 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-30 14:11 ` G.B.
2015-07-30 19:29 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-07-30 20:53 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-30 22:52 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-07-31 7:29 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-07-31 7:53 ` gautier_niouzes
2015-07-31 8:26 ` Simon Wright
2015-07-31 9:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-07-31 9:31 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-31 11:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-07-31 13:50 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-31 16:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-07-31 11:26 ` Brian Drummond
2015-07-31 12:12 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-31 12:15 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-31 17:54 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-07-31 18:20 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-31 18:51 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-08-01 7:20 ` Simon Wright
2015-08-01 8:06 ` EGarrulo
2015-08-01 8:33 ` Simon Wright
2015-08-01 10:47 ` EGarrulo
2015-08-01 11:27 ` Simon Wright
2015-08-01 11:44 ` Niklas Holsti
2015-08-01 12:19 ` EGarrulo
2015-08-01 17:49 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-08-01 18:15 ` Paul Rubin
2015-08-01 18:59 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-08-01 20:30 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-08-01 20:44 ` EGarrulo
2015-08-01 22:44 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-08-01 23:39 ` EGarrulo
2015-08-02 0:02 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-08-02 0:18 ` EGarrulo
2015-08-02 0:30 ` EGarrulo
2015-08-02 6:05 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-08-02 8:29 ` EGarrulo
2015-08-02 19:21 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-08-02 21:37 ` EGarrulo
2015-08-03 2:35 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-08-02 2:53 ` Paul Rubin
2015-08-02 6:07 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-08-02 8:36 ` EGarrulo
2015-08-01 16:53 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-08-01 17:00 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-08-01 7:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-07-30 8:23 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-07-30 8:45 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-30 9:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-07-30 11:22 ` Niklas Holsti
2015-07-30 13:00 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-30 13:30 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-07-30 13:51 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-30 14:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-07-30 14:46 ` Simon Wright
2015-07-30 14:31 ` G.B.
2015-07-30 18:46 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-30 9:18 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-30 18:55 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-30 19:32 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-31 0:10 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-30 11:35 ` Brian Drummond
2015-07-30 13:30 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-31 11:07 ` Brian Drummond
2015-07-30 8:28 ` Pascal Obry
2015-07-30 12:00 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-30 10:01 ` Björn Lundin
2015-07-30 10:59 ` Pascal Obry
2015-07-30 11:21 ` gautier_niouzes
2015-07-30 18:35 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-31 15:21 ` Stefan.Lucks
2015-07-31 17:28 ` Pascal Obry
2015-08-01 11:38 ` Björn Lundin
2015-08-01 20:07 ` Stefan.Lucks
2015-08-03 23:26 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-30 6:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-07-30 6:37 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-07-30 8:27 ` Pascal Obry
2015-07-30 9:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-07-30 11:51 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-30 12:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-07-30 13:55 ` Niklas Holsti
2015-08-30 7:03 ` David Thompson
2015-07-30 14:07 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-30 18:12 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-07-30 18:51 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-30 19:27 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-07-30 19:54 ` EGarrulo [this message]
2015-07-30 22:53 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-07-30 23:58 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-30 11:54 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-30 12:42 ` Pascal Obry
2015-07-30 13:21 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-30 13:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-07-30 13:55 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-30 15:23 ` Niklas Holsti
2015-07-30 19:32 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-30 20:10 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-31 0:23 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-31 6:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-08-02 10:08 ` EGarrulo
2015-08-02 12:15 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-29 23:45 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-30 0:25 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-07-30 8:12 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-30 18:01 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-07-29 6:46 ` Simon Wright
2015-07-29 7:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-07-29 19:57 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-29 20:09 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-07-30 18:16 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-29 20:38 ` Simon Wright
2015-07-30 7:50 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2015-07-30 14:48 ` G.B.
2015-07-30 15:58 ` Simon Wright
2015-07-30 15:13 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-30 15:21 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-30 15:29 ` G.B.
2015-07-30 16:02 ` Simon Wright
2015-07-30 16:15 ` Simon Wright
2015-07-30 16:29 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-30 17:31 ` Simon Wright
2015-07-28 10:28 ` Brian Drummond
2015-07-28 11:39 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-29 10:02 ` Brian Drummond
2015-07-29 10:29 ` Brian Drummond
2015-07-29 12:00 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-29 19:23 ` gautier_niouzes
2015-07-28 11:43 ` Björn Lundin
2015-07-28 11:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-07-28 12:06 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-28 12:54 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-07-28 13:18 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-28 13:49 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-28 14:02 ` Bob Duff
2015-07-28 14:57 ` G.B.
2015-07-28 15:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-07-29 7:15 ` Stefan.Lucks
2015-07-29 7:52 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-29 17:30 ` Stefan.Lucks
2015-07-29 18:49 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-07-29 20:40 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-30 7:40 ` gautier_niouzes
2015-07-30 19:22 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-28 13:06 ` G.B.
2015-07-28 13:19 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-28 20:55 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-28 22:31 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-29 20:09 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-07-29 22:40 ` EGarrulo
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