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From: rk9005@cca.ucsf.edu (Roland McGrath)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Why are there no v*scanf like v*printf functions?
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Date: 10 Jan 88 00:01:34 GMT
Reply-To: roland@lbl-rtsg.arpa (Roland McGrath)
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Is there some reason that the ANSI standard doesn't include
functions vfscanf, vscanf and vsscanf?
I don't know actually how useful they would be, but
they'd be at least as useful as v*printf.

I can't see any reason for not including them.  The
GNU C library has them because I didn't see why it shouldn't
and I needed to write vfscanf to implement fscanf, scanf and sscanf
anyway.  Don't talk to me about hard to implement; they can't
be harder than v*printf.  And don't talk to me about prior art;
there's a whole hell of a lot of other new functions much harder
to deal with than these.

Can our local XJ311 representative give any insights?
Doug, have your fingers fallen off yet? :-)
You sure have a lot of work to do fielding all the
responses (and abuse) to the committee's decisions.
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		Roland McGrath
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