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From: "David C. Hoos" <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language?
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tomasz Wegrzanowski" <taw@pb220.legnica.sdi.tpnet.pl>
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Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language?


> In article <slrn9lgceb.jq.lutz@taranis.iks-jena.de>, Lutz Donnerhacke
wrote:
<snip>
> >>Compiler (at least gcc) warns when you screw formants.
> >
> > printf is an runtime interpreter. That's ugly.
>
> Almost all printfs are compile-time printfs.
I beg to differ.  All printfs must be run-time interpreters, otherwise they
couldn't support variable format strings -- i.e., the string that defines
the
way the output elements are to be formatted.

The other thing about prontf that is different from Ada is the fact that it
(as well as many other C functions) takes a variable number of arguments.

> Complire could as well support printf or equivalent.
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