From: Arrigo Triulzi <arrigo@alchemistowl.org>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Any Good dmr Anecdotes?
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2018 10:28:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E7E472E3-7460-45BF-BB0F-18D5F53384A1@alchemistowl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.999.1807011523270.68695@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On 1 Jul 2018, at 07:29, Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2018, Arrigo Triulzi wrote:
>
>> As I was told this visitor was the R in the “K&R” book I felt I could finally ask “someone who knew” how printf() worked with a variable number of arguments.
>
> It wouldn't've used that awful nargs() call at that time, would it? I was glad when that horror was removed.
I was about 10 at the time, I hope you will excuse me for not recalling this detail. I just recall the way that he used my “arrows in the street” to explain how printf() walked through the argument list carrying an arrow on its shoulder, then did what it had to do until it got to the end of the street. As you can probably imagine it is still how I visualise the workings of printf() to this day. Note that this was pure K&R, pre-ANSI C varargs.
Arrigo
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-29 7:53 Warren Toomey
2018-06-29 10:53 ` ches@Cheswick.com
2018-06-29 12:51 ` John P. Linderman
2018-06-30 0:50 ` Steve Johnson
2018-06-30 11:44 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-06-30 22:42 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-06-30 23:29 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-07-01 4:17 ` Larry McVoy
2018-07-01 11:42 ` ron
2018-07-01 5:29 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-07-01 8:28 ` Arrigo Triulzi [this message]
2018-07-01 11:34 ` ron
2018-07-09 16:30 ` Random832
2018-07-09 17:13 ` Clem Cole
2018-07-10 5:54 ` arnold
2018-07-10 6:09 ` George Michaelson
2018-07-10 7:19 ` arnold
2018-07-11 0:20 ` Noel Hunt
2018-07-11 1:31 ` Larry McVoy
2018-07-11 1:37 ` George Michaelson
2018-07-11 1:37 ` ron minnich
2018-07-11 3:12 ` Larry McVoy
2018-07-11 3:34 ` [TUHS] getopt (was " Bakul Shah
2018-07-13 9:08 ` [TUHS] " ches@Cheswick.com
2018-07-13 14:10 ` ron
2018-07-10 14:10 ` Clem Cole
2018-07-03 17:34 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-29 23:55 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-06-30 0:06 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-06-30 14:20 ` John P. Linderman
2018-06-30 1:31 Larry McVoy
2018-06-30 1:45 ` Jon Forrest
2018-06-30 18:43 ` Steve Johnson
2018-07-01 16:35 Norman Wilson
2018-07-02 19:55 Paul Ruizendaal
2018-07-03 7:27 arnold
2018-07-18 9:42 Hendrik Jan Thomassen
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