parsing the format string at compile time...

[John Kallen]

In article <23054 at cup.portal.com> Tim_CDC_Roberts at cup.portal.com writes:
!Regarding Modula-2 requiring the programmer to parse format strings:
!
!C++ is very much like this, if you think about it.
!
!   printf ("%d %s %d\n", 123, "What?", 456");
!
!becomes:
!
!   cout << 123 << ' ' << "What?" << ' ' << 456;
!
!There are separate, overloaded definitions of the '<<' operator, each of
!which knows how to format a particular type.

I don't want to be picky, but at least as far as Cfront 2.0, G++ 1.36.0 and
Zortech C++ go, your C++ line would output:

12332What?32456

You probably want:

cout << 123 << " " << "What?" << " " << 456;

John.
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