On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 10:18:34PM +0000, Rob wrote: > printf '%f\n' 2 > > If you "throw it into the standard library's printf", even forgetting > about how we do that, you'd still interpret 2 as an int, when printf > expects a float. And that's only the beginning, what about %n, or not > passing enough arguments?
Exactly. BTW, I just noticed this thread as the messages had been bouncing for some time (was migrating my mail setup). bye, sin