barmar@leander.think.com (Barry Margolin) (11/10/89)
In article <1781@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes: >OK, that means it is impossible to call printf() or scanf() from an >interpreter, other than doing at least part of the printf work yourself (at >least interpreting the '%' formats. You couldn't do this before the ANSI C effort, so why should you expect to be able to do it now? There was very little existing practice in this area on which to base a standard mechanism, in contrast to the common varargs practice that formed the basis for stdarg. Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp. barmar@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar