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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: Your wish list for Ada 202X
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 23:41:31 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-03-30, Luke A  Guest <laguest@archeia.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Sorry, I understand what you are saying now. I thought you were
talking about the way it was written in the source code, not the
way the compiler generated the parameter passing code.

Simon.

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