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The Rachel Kroll of 1998 would have been hard pressed to be familiar with %G, something that only got standardized in ISO 9899:1999 and IEEE 1003.1:2001 and was
by JdeBP 8y ago
The Rachel Kroll of 1998 would have been hard pressed to be familiar with %G, something that only got standardized in ISO 9899:1999 and IEEE 1003.1:2001 and was somewhat experimental in the years before. (I don't remember precisely when I added these to my C library back in the 1990s, but they were definitely interesting but highly non-standard extensions in the 1990s.) Of course this supports xyr point that this was not "documented all over the place".
- mmt 8y agoSorry, I didn't mean to imply that anyone in 1998 should have known specifically about %G. I was, rather, referring, more generally, to something like the wisdom of finishing the man page, even if one thinks one has what one needs partway through, even if one is in a hurry. That's something I've personally tried to teach whenever I can, along with as many rationales for why this is the case that I can come up with at the time. This inherent flaw/tradeoff, of ordering, is one of them. No matter what order the author chooses, some reader (sometimes the same person at different times) will find that order suboptimal.