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From: brianc@cognos.uucp (Brian Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: output formatting in C
Message-ID: <1197@cognos.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Jul-87 11:44:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: cognos.1197
Posted: Wed Jul 29 11:44:48 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Aug-87 01:39:15 EDT
References: <1085@gilsys.UUCP> <1227@cald80.UUCP>
Reply-To: brianc@cognos.UUCP (Brian Campbell)
Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <1227@cald80.UUCP> bob@cald80.UUCP (bob) writes:
>
> 	printf("%8.3f\n", fnum);
> 		or
> 	fprintf(fd, "%8.3f\n", fnum);

   Speaking of pet peeves ... this is one of mine!  Why do so many
programs use fd (which usually stands for "file descriptor") instead of
something like fp (FILE pointer) as a parameter to functions which
expect a pointer to a file structure?
   Its bad enough for the C library functions I KNOW expect a pointer,
but for functions that someone else wrote (in another source file, of
course) it only makes for harder-to-read code.
-- 
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