jznsis

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1. 1.▲
   by jznsis 2y ago

   I seem to be missing something, thus thank you for taking your time > Wouldn't that be like if in C, you had to write the arguments in reverse order of the format string, like this? Exactly and that's not what we want Let'
2. 2.▲
   by jznsis 2y ago

   No
3. 3.▲
   by jznsis 2y ago

   Yes, but the final result is out_str, not a forward to console, isn't it? Either way, the format string discussion for the printf familiy of functions is very similar between them
4. 4.▲
   by jznsis 2y ago

   I'm not that familiar with syntax of functional programming languages. Isn't Int -> String -> String a shorthand for Int -> (String -> String)? Thus I would have assumed the first argument to the result of sprintf &quo
5. 5.▲
   by jznsis 2y ago

   Nice writeup! It would be helpful to seen an actual invocation of the new sprintf function I know it's supposed to be pseudo code and most likely it's something like sprintf "% world %d" "hello" 42 but I got a
6. 6.▲
   by jznsis 2y ago

   This is just a choice of having to provide an output buffer to the function instead of returning a new buffer since it's easier to inject custom allocator behaviour that way