"%#s"?

[Karl Heuer]

In article <324 at proxftl.UUCP> bill at proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
>You do not want to use short octal escape sequences [for %#c or %#s encoding]
>because the string "\a0" could be output as "\70" which is ambiguous.  For
>similar reasons, if X3J11 leaves in the unlimited length for "\x", those
>can't be used.

Which means that there are some strings% that can't be output at all, except
by writing every single character -- including the printable ones -- in hex.
(The string-literal-pasting kludge doesn't help here.)

I'll make one more effort in the third public review to convince X3J11 that my
\c terminator is useful.  See comp.std.c for a discussion thereof.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl at haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint
% Consider a machine with 12-bit bytes, printable chars being 0x400-0x4ff.