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From: guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c,net.unix-wizards,net.wanted
Subject: Re: need info: %r in printf
Message-ID: <5420@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Oct-83 08:02:34 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 13 08:02:34 1983
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Organization: Math.Centre, Amsterdam
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Since %r is - as far as I know - not standard, and the stated most common
use (in general error message printers) is as easily programmed as follows:

/* VARARGS 1 */	bug(fmt, a1, a2, ..., a10) char *fmt; {
	fprintf(stderr, "Error: ");
	fprintf(stderr, fmt, a1, a2, ..., a10);
	abort();
}

it seems better if DECUS had never introduced it in the first place.
The same is true for the "well-known hack" to pass a variable number
of arguments!!!-- 
Guido van Rossum, Mathematical Centre, Amsterdam, {philabs,decvax}!mcvax!guido