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I generally support efforts to reduce human error, but the author goes too far by calling for format strings to be abolished. Localization is hard, which is wh

by xfitm3 8y ago

I generally support efforts to reduce human error, but the author goes too far by calling for format strings to be abolished. Localization is hard, which is why these functions exist. There is ctime() but it includes a trailing \n which isn’t always what you want.

masklinn 8y ago
> There is ctime() but it includes a trailing \n which isn’t always what you want. It's also not useful what with being in a hard-coded US customary format.