On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 12:31:34PM -0400, Casey R. Tweten wrote:
> I think pack/unpack are perlish enough. Especially if we believe that
> printf/sprintf are perlish.
Interpolation is perlish. printf and sprintf are not. And for
similar reasons as pack/unpack. "%e a floating-point number, in
scientific notation".
People don't trip over s/printf as much for several reasons:
Anyone who's written even the slightest amount of C has used printf().
Even if you haven't, there's high odds that someone around you has and can
help.
printf() has a direct analogy to print(). "printf is like print, except..."
which makes it much easier to explain. It provides that bit of mental
runway to get the reader's mind off the ground.
The differences between sprintf and printf are very easy to explain.
"Equivalent to C<print sprintf>"
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