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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: Text_IO, was: Re: Something I don't understand
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On 2014-02-19, Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote:
> Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>
>> And voila, C printf templates in a fully Ada type safe manner.
>
> Note that C printf templates are type safe (statically!) if you use
> gcc, and if you always use statically-known templates (which in my
> experience is true approximately 100% of the time).
>

Note to self: Next time, don't use the phrase "And voila" as a casual
afterthought without actually thinking things through a bit more. :-)

Simon.

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