On 18 January 2014, Pieter Hintjens said:
> Yes, I thought it was cool to make a few of the string functions, like
> zstr_send, accept printf formats. I've also been bitten more than once
> by that.
>
> Perhaps we can consider this API style to be broken, and dangerous,
> and remove the printf formatting from zstr_send, putting it into
> zstr_sendf instead?
>
> There are a bunch of other cases like this. It'll break the CZMQ API
> but I think it's justified if we're fixing a design fault.
Agreed. It's a nice convenience for C programmers, but unnecessary and
risky for high-level bindings. E.g. the Python binding could just
ignore zstr_sendf() -- I imagine most Python programmers would reach
for Python's string-formatting facilities first.
Greg
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