Re: calling argumentless function with argument

From	"Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: calling argumentless function with argument
Date	2019-01-06 16:17 +0100
Organization	Informatimago
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Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

> Which ones? On this page:

For example the first programming language I learned, LSE (Langage
Symbolique d'Enseignement).

>  http://rosettacode.org/wiki/String_concatenation
>
> the most common operator, when it is done by an infix operator, seems
> to be "+", followed by "&". (I couldn't search for "!" because that
> occurs in "hello world!" in every example.)
>
>> It would be a pure extension to C, so it wouldn't
>> break any existing program.

& is already a binary operator.  "foo" & "bar" already means something
in C, (even if in modern C it produces warnings for the implicit cast).

> For this example however, C's sprintf is clearer:
>
>   sprintf(txt, "ala has %7d cats and %.2f dogs", i, f);

Indeed, I prefer format templates better than concatenation to produce
formatted output.

-- 
__Pascal J. Bourguignon__
http://www.informatimago.com

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calling argumentless function with argument jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2019-01-04 16:04 +0000
  Re: calling argumentless function with argument David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-01-04 17:34 +0100
    Re: calling argumentless function with argument Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-01-04 17:30 +0000
      Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-04 09:50 -0800
        Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-05 05:58 -0800
          Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-05 07:56 -0800
            Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-05 10:56 -0800
              Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-05 14:55 -0800
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-06 01:29 +0100
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-01-06 02:20 +0000
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-01-06 02:51 +0000
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-06 12:12 +0100
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-01-06 11:53 +0000
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-06 12:58 +0100
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-01-06 11:45 +0000
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-06 12:58 +0100
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-01-06 12:24 +0000
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-01-06 04:34 -0800
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-06 13:41 +0100
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-06 04:10 -0800
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-06 13:51 +0100
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-06 13:56 +0100
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-06 05:20 -0800
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-06 16:08 +0100
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-01-06 15:59 -0800
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-01-06 13:42 +0000
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-06 06:22 -0800
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-06 16:19 +0100
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-06 07:42 -0800
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-06 08:05 -0800
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-06 08:30 -0800
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-06 17:44 +0100
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-06 08:54 -0800
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-07 08:02 -0800
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-07 08:07 -0800
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-07 09:16 -0800
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-07 09:40 -0800
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-07 09:57 -0800
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-09 02:23 -0800
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-06 16:17 +0100
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-01-06 16:56 +0000
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-06 09:12 -0800
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-06 12:39 -0800
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-06 18:26 +0100
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-01-06 18:52 +0000
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-06 02:32 -0800
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-01-06 04:38 -0800
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-06 13:42 +0100
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2019-01-06 10:27 -0600
                Re: calling argumentless function with argument "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-06 17:47 +0100
      Re: calling argumentless function with argument David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-01-04 19:30 +0100
      Re: calling argumentless function with argument Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-01-04 10:55 -0800
      Re: calling argumentless function with argument Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2019-01-05 00:16 -0600
    Re: calling argumentless function with argument queequeg@trust.no1 (Queequeg) - 2019-01-07 10:43 +0000
      Re: calling argumentless function with argument Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2019-01-07 16:25 -0600
  Re: calling argumentless function with argument Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2019-01-04 09:54 -0800
  Re: calling argumentless function with argument Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-01-04 10:26 -0800
    Re: calling argumentless function with argument Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-01-04 12:07 -0800
  Re: calling argumentless function with argument James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-01-04 15:03 -0500
    Re: calling argumentless function with argument Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-01-05 00:04 +0000
      Re: calling argumentless function with argument James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-01-05 22:36 -0500
  Re: calling argumentless function with argument jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2019-01-05 13:17 +0000
    Re: calling argumentless function with argument fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-05 06:06 -0800
    Re: calling argumentless function with argument David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-01-05 15:42 +0100
      Re: calling argumentless function with argument Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-01-05 14:58 +0000
    Re: calling argumentless function with argument "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-01-05 16:11 +0100
    Re: calling argumentless function with argument Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2019-01-05 11:23 -0500
      Re: calling argumentless function with argument Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-01-05 16:53 +0000
        Re: calling argumentless function with argument Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-01-06 00:46 +0000

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