> What we really need is our own s(n?)printf:
>
> Parrot_sprintf(target, "%I + %F - %I", foo, bar, baz);
> /* or some such nonsense */
> or even:
> target=Parrot_sprintf("%I + %F - %I); /* like Perl's built-in */
>
> That way, it could even handle Parrot strings natively, perhaps with a
> %S code.
>
> By the way, Windows sems to have an _snprintf function with the same
> arguments. The leading underscore is beyond me. *shrugs*
It may be a good idea to have our own version of vsnprintf(). I know
the windows version does not handle infinity and nan well. The precision
of floating point may be different on different platforms.
BTW, MSVCRT has several functions with leading _, such as _isnan,
_finite, and snprintf.
Hong
