From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] snprint(), getfields() specification 
From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk
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Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 18:51:13 +0100
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>>If I had to pick one, I'd go for the length routine.  If you really
>>care, always use it; if you never care, you want the actual number of
>>bytes and the snprint (not snprintf) result seems better.

would it not also avoid the proliferation of special interfaces for each possible
routine that does formatting (including the ones users invent)?