I'm not sure I understand – C's sprintf certainly has problems with type safety, but a function wrapping Julia's @sprintf can't *not* be strongly typed. No?
On 3 December 2014 at 23:43, <ele...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As Stefan said above, the problem with traditional (s)printf functions is > type safety. > > On Thursday, December 4, 2014 4:53:17 AM UTC+10, Mike Innes wrote: >> >> #9423 <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/9243> should help with >> the repetition of format strings issue. It occurs to me now that you can >> always just write a function wrapper for `@sprintf` to solve that issue but >> this might still be useful. >> >> [...] >
