Variable argument lists.

[Frank Adams]

In article <504 at sas.UUCP> bts at sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger) writes:
>Thus, I seriously doubt that it "most of the power of the
>variable argument list is wasted."

Actually, I think the original statement is correct (at least if "most" is
interpreted as "the majority of").  But variable argument lists are in the
nature of a frill, not a necessity.  Even printf could be replaced quite
adequately by a series of calls, one to output each item or bit of
intervening text.  Such a protocol seems horrible the first time you
encounter it, but after just a little experience you realize that it is not
appreciably worse than the other approach.
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