parsing the format string at compile time...

[Henry Spencer]

In article <990 at cirrusl.UUCP> dhesi%cirrusl at oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>Rephrasing:
>
>     If traditional C did allow this, it would not be traditional C.
>     The traditional C compiler knows nothing about any functions,
>     including I/O.

More accurate rephrasing:

	If traditional C did allow this, it would not be what I think
	of as traditional C, therefore I'm sure it wasn't allowed, even 
	though the documentation actually was silent on the matter.
	The traditional C compiler I use knows nothing about any functions,
	therefore no such compiler does.
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