And neither does go.
   fmt.Print(x)
prints x, using its default format, which is not coincidentally available
in Printf as %v.

-rob


On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 7:17 AM Douglas McIlroy <
douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:

> > Most of the time I'd rather not have to care whether the thing
> > I'm printing is a string, or a pointer, or an integer, or whatever:
> > I just want to see its value.
>
> > Go has %v for exactly this.  It's very nice for debugging.
>
> Why so verbose? In Basic, PRINT required no formatting directives at all.
>
> Doug
>