Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <37000CAB.B43D6B61@classic-games.com> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 17:28:43 -0600 From: Greg Miller X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: libc and crt support... References: <199903292310.RAA22326@modi.xraylith.wisc.edu> <370008D0.5A3F5534@classic-games.com> <017501be7a3c$118248d0$020210ac@paso.atasd.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Brian Macy wrote: > > For that matter, why would you even need such a function? Give me a > > string stream any day. > > Because streams make anything besides trivial formatting absolutely hideous. Well, I guess that's subjective and therefore not worth arguing, but anything beyond trivial formatting is extremely rare, and I find it hard to imagine how it could be worth the dangers and ugliness of printf-style functions. -- http://www.classic-games.com/ President Clinton was acquitted; then again, so was O. J. Simpson. *** NEWBIES: Limit signatures to four lines! No HTML mail or posts! *** -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com