On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:21:00AM +0100, Kamil Cholewiński wrote: > > It depends on your background. eprintf() and weprintf() were written by > > Rob Pike and Kernighan and used in the book "The Practice of Programming". > > I see... Principle of least surprise, except it's me who should never be > surprised. I guess the rest of us get surprised only once.
The e prefix indicates error. This I think is more clear than the BSD approach of using the x prefix. wprintf() is taken so it had to be weprintf().
