Argument typechecking vs. PRINTF et al
alan at allegra.UUCP
alan at allegra.UUCP
Thu Sep 15 09:38:42 AEST 1983
My only suggestion would be that ... this need not and should
not be done by the compiler ...
I think you missed an important point. The compiler, armed with this
information, would be able to coerce arguments to the correct type.
This would make it possible to say
f(1);
without knowing or caring whether f is expecting an int, a short, or
a long. In this way, the programmer would be relieved of a tedious
responsibility, and a potential source of errors.
Alan Driscoll
Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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