printf

[Chris Torek]

>In article <28255 at iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bobmon at iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
>(RAMontante) writes:
>>Henry Spencer and Chris Torek both tackle [printf("%d"+(a),b);] ...
>>... and the winner is --- CHRIS TOREK, by a score of 148 to 12!!!
>>(lines of response, that is)

:-)

In article <1989Oct21.234146.23275 at utzoo.uucp> henry at utzoo.uucp
(Henry Spencer) writes:
>In fairness, Chris gave a much more detailed and precise discussion of
>the possible uncertainties in the interpretation of the code fragment.

Actually, what I intended to do (with unknown success) was encourage
people to think instead of just posting.  To that end, I posted something
outlining one way to think about the problem.

There has been, and no doubt will continue to be, a rash of postings
of the form `what does <x> do' for some simple but unusual <x> in
programming language <y>.  Most such questions are best answered by
looking in a good book about <y>, or in the standard for <y>.  (The
previous round was about e1[e2], in the form i[a] instead of a[i].)
-- 
`They were supposed to be green.'
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