Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Strings in C (Re: ambiguous ?) Message-ID: <6706@ficc.uu.net> Date: 27 Oct 89 19:45:31 GMT References: <11398@smoke.BRL.MIL> <14115@lanl.gov> <2522@munnari.oz.au> <6676@ficc.uu.net> <2421@convex.UUCP> <2742@hub.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 20 I said: >In most Macintosh C compilers that I've seen, the syntax !"%p...."! is In article <2742@hub.UUCP> pete@cavevax.ucsb.edu writes: > Actually, the syntax is "\p...", Ack. (takes aim at foot) > but that's only a nit I had to pick. I'm afraid it's not nitpicking. !\p! is an extension that doesn't conflict with existing non-Mac code or working ANSI code. It's reasonable. I thought it was !%p!, which conflict with "pointer" format in ANSI C. (*BANG*) -- `-_-' Peter da Silva . 'U` -------------- +1 713 274 5180. "That particular mistake will not be repeated. There are plenty of mistakes left that have not yet been used." -- Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)