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From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Running a preprocessor from GPS?
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 08:37:23 +0200
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On 30.07.15 00:32, EGarrulo wrote:
> If a programming
> language doesn't let programmers print formatted output easily, then it
> is deficient and it must be fixed, because printing formatted output is
> a basic task.

This seems a valid marketing argument, assuming that "easily" means
"conveniently quick and like with a format string".(*)

How useful would a language defined pragma be that does the job
of just dumping a text representation?

    pragma Dump (On|Off, name {, name });

where »name« stands for any entity from the current unit?

__
(*) Writing

   Put (Some_Float_Object);

is pretty easy to understand and write? Even if you write two Puts
on a line.