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On 1 Jul 2018, at 07:29, Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
>=20
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2018, Arrigo Triulzi wrote:
>=20
>> As I was told this visitor was the R in the =E2=80=9CK&R=E2=80=9D =
book I felt I could finally ask =E2=80=9Csomeone who knew=E2=80=9D how =
printf() worked with a variable number of arguments.
>=20
> 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 =E2=80=9Carrows in =
the street=E2=80=9D 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