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> printf("%s\n", "Hello, World!");
>
> That's an awful lot of symbolic syntax.
printf("Hello, World!\n");
One can do something like
printf("%s,%s%c\n", "Hello", "World", '!');
displayln("Hello, World!");
> printf("%s\n", "Hello, World!"); > > That's an awful lot of symbolic syntax. Well... Because it should have been printf("Hello, World!\n"); in the first place? One can do something like printf("%s,%s%c\n", "Hello", "World", '!'); and claim that C is awful and that displayln("Hello, World!"); is so much better.
> printf("%s\n", "Hello, World!"); > > That's an awful lot of symbolic syntax. Well... Because it should have been printf("Hello, World!\n"); in the first place? One can do something like printf("%s,%s%c\n", "Hello", "World", '!'); and claim that C is awful and that displayln("Hello, World!"); is so much better.
This works for a literal, but the author was probably thinking of "print a string that comes from somewhere else" where you do the first thing to avoid format characters to be interpreted.
The first proposed macro displayln is the archetype of malpractice. What if I want to do:
if(some_condition) displayln("enjoy debugging that");
etc etc... almost all proposed changes seem to be awful ?
> printf("%s\n", "Hello, World!"); > > That's an awful lot of symbolic syntax. Well... Because it should have been printf("Hello, World!\n"); in the first place? One can do something like printf("%s,%s%c\n", "Hello", "World", '!'); and claim that C is awful and that displayln("Hello, World!"); is so much better.
All of these are valid:
displayln("Hello, World!");
displayln(100);
displayln(1.8);
> Well... Because it should have been
> printf("Hello, World!\n");
No. You don't really want to do that. If you're doing that, use puts [0] . All this requires is a modification to one string in memory and you have an injection vulnerability.
I guess this article is to be taken lightly as kind of a "joke" ? The first proposed macro displayln is the archetype of malpractice. What if I want to do: if(some_condition) displayln("enjoy debugging that"); etc etc... almost all proposed changes seem to be awful ?
> printf("%s\n", "Hello, World!"); > > That's an awful lot of symbolic syntax. Well... Because it should have been printf("Hello, World!\n"); in the first place? One can do something like printf("%s,%s%c\n", "Hello", "World", '!'); and claim that C is awful and that displayln("Hello, World!"); is so much better.
puts(“Hello, World!”)
I guess this article is to be taken lightly as kind of a "joke" ? The first proposed macro displayln is the archetype of malpractice. What if I want to do: if(some_condition) displayln("enjoy debugging that"); etc etc... almost all proposed changes seem to be awful ?
> What if, for a moment, we forgot all the rules we know. That we ignore every good idea, and accept all the terrible ones.
Big fan. I don’t see support for exceptions, maybe this can help: https://github.com/hraban/c-exceptions (I ended up using this in a job once. They didn’t hire me back...)
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This works for a literal, but the author was probably thinking of "print a string that comes from somewhere else" where you do the first thing to avoid format characters to be interpreted.
Could be. But wouldn't then displayln() require the same string placeholder? Be it "%s", or "{1}" or someting else.
[0] https://gist.github.com/shakna-israel/4fd31ee469274aa49f8f97...