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From: aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Don't use Scanf()
Message-ID: <28700027@ccvaxa>
Date: 21 Mar 88 06:44:00 GMT
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Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!aglew    Mar 21 00:44:00 1988


>One real stupidity I've seen many, many times is the
>over-use of printf.  The printf functions have their uses,
>and they do their job quite well, but please know what these
>uses are!!

It would be nice if compilers could do a bit of processing,
determine that printf("string with no formats") can be transformed
into puts -- so that we can get on with the important job of solving
problems, and not have to play games remembering which I/O function
to use today (well, tcputs() is almost what I need, but its 
buffering conflicts with fooprintf() which is implicitly used
by the error printing routine used in module xyzzy).