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When your language doesn't allow arbitrary expressions in format strings (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by Walnut356 to c/programming_horror

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[–] sukhmel 3 points 1 year ago

Well, that's all true from an end user perspective. But consider that format! is a macro and as such it should process its format string. Calling something from inside evaluation of a format string really does seem weird in that regard