It's not the same.
1) Doesn't work in C. Doesn't work in C++ without STL.
2) You lose all the warnings about printf format
I still think it's a bit useless to have to be specific about what size
is an integral type you want to print, when the compiler know it
perfectly. It also would work with user defined printf-like function
(which I use a lot).
On 20.03.20 11:12, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 at 07:16, jf wrote:
Hi all,
I'm a printf-like function lover. I always found that better than doing
something like out << "blabla : " << var1 << ", blabla" << etc.
Now, I use a lot of different platforms and to be portable, I'm supposed
to use PRIxxx constants for portability. For me that half-breaks the
readability of printf format.
What about a new set of functions that'll be specified slightly
differently :
What if we can write %d for ANY number ?
You should look at https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/format
and the reference implementation https://fmt.dev/
There's no need for compiler magic.
