Variadic macro expansions were well known elsewhere even in 1980; for instance, m4, which shipped in Seventh Edition Unix, supported them. --- man/curs_printw.3x | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/man/curs_printw.3x b/man/curs_printw.3x index 760005a55..170b6e0a4 100644 --- a/man/curs_printw.3x +++ b/man/curs_printw.3x @@ -156,7 +156,8 @@ .SH HISTORY this initial distribution of .I curses preceded the ANSI C standard of 1989, -prior to which a variadic macro facility was not widely available. +prior to which a variadic macro facility was not widely available +in the language. .I \%printw went unused in Berkeley distributions until 4.1cBSD (1983), which employed it in games. -- 2.30.2
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