On Monday, 1 October 2012 at 09:42:08 UTC, Piotr Szturmaj wrote:
Jakob Ovrum wrote:
On Monday, 1 October 2012 at 09:17:52 UTC, Piotr Szturmaj
wrote:
Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Saturday, 29 September 2012 at 02:11:12 UTC, Alex Rønne
Petersen
wrote:
Also this reminds me of the utter uselessness of the current
behavior of
"%s" and a pointer - it prints the address.
Why not specialize current "%s" for character pointer types
so it will
print null terminated strings? It's always possible to cast
to void*
to print an address.
It's not safe to assume that pointers to characters are
generally null
terminated.
Yes, but programmer should know what he's passing anyway.
The thinking "the programmer should" only works in one man teams.
As soon as you start having teams with disparate programming
knowledge among team members, you can forget everything about
"the programmer should".
..
Paulo
