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Subject: Re: Running a preprocessor from GPS?
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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.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in
space, 'cause there's bugger all down here on earth."
Monty Python's Meaning of Life
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