Re: Variadic functions

From: Konstantin Olchanski (olchansk@ux1.phy.bnl.gov)
Date: Fri Apr 14 2000 - 10:10:19 EDT

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On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 08:55:14AM +0200, Anders Holm wrote:
> Use of variadic functions
> 
> printf uses it. It looks nice but it is a hack.
> 
> Please do not introduce use of variadic functions in new places.
> 
> It is not necessay and it is likely to cause a lot of pain.
> 

Variadic functions may have been a hack in some distant past, but
with ANSI C and "stdarg.h" it is a useful language feature and
"printf", "vsprintf" and other *extremely* useful things would not be
possible without it.

It is very unfortunate that the C++ IO library and the Java IO library
lack sprintf(). Hopefully this oversight will not lead th the premature
demise of said languages, as it killed Pascal and Modula-2.

The fact that CINT reportedly does not handle stdarg.h stuff is regretful
but does not bother me too much. Just one more compiler bug to dance around.

-- 
Konstantin Olchanski
Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, New York
olchansk@bnl.gov

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