On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 10:49:03PM +0000, sin wrote: > 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).
is there any update on this? Sorry I do not have the original message so I can't respond there. bye, sin