Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!daveh
From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Examine and ExNext return codes
Message-ID: <5640@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 89 21:44:40 GMT
References: <3226@sugar.uu.net>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 37

in article <3226@sugar.uu.net>, peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) says:
> Keywords: ints, Examine

> In article <574@boing.UUCP>, dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes:
>> struct point
>> {
>> 	short x,y;
>> };

>> struct point a;

>> 	printf("point(%d,%d)\n",a);
>                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^----- Aaaaaaaaargh!

> You, man, are one sick puppy. I hope there are no goodies like this floating
> around in the deliverable software. :-\

That is mutated.  Obviously, what you guys really wanted was C++, you perhaps 
just didn't know it.  Then you could have done:

	point a;

	cout << "point" << a << "\n";

And you get the proper ASCII representation of a point, like maybe (##,##)
or whatever you define in your point class, without resorting to kludgery
or compiler specific hacks.




> Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva  `-_-'  Hackercorp.
> ...texbell!sugar!peter, or peter@sugar.uu.net      'U`
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