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From: "Greg A. Woods" <woods@robohack.ca>
To: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Command options and complexity
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 19:24:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1jCwTM-0036tPC@more.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200313042527.GA44529@eureka.lemis.com>

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At Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:25:27 +1100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Command options and complexity
>
> The real question is whether a comma is a valid character in an
> integer.  There are arguments that it should be.

It would make sense if scanf() had the equivalent flag to printf() to
make number printing and parsing at least potentially orthogonal.

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					Greg A. Woods <gwoods@acm.org>

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-14  2:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-13  3:04 Doug McIlroy
2020-03-13  4:25 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-03-14  2:24   ` Greg A. Woods [this message]
2020-03-14 13:08     ` Richard Salz
2020-03-13 19:48 ` Steffen Nurpmeso

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