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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Text_IO, was: Re: Something I don't understand
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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).

- Bob