Strings in C (Re: ambiguous ?)

[Peter da Silva]

I said:
>In most Macintosh C compilers that I've seen, the syntax !"%p...."! is

In article <2742 at hub.UUCP> pete at cavevax.ucsb.edu writes:
> Actually, the syntax is "\p...",

Ack. (takes aim at foot)

> but that's only a nit I had to pick.

I'm afraid it's not nitpicking. !\p! is an extension that doesn't conflict
with existing non-Mac code or working ANSI code. It's reasonable. I thought
it was !%p!, which conflict with "pointer" format in ANSI C.

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