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Re: Rethinking... (Re: RFC: fp printing speedup...)
Nathan Myers <ncm-nospam@cantrip.org> writes:
[...]
| > To me the standard seems to imply this, but no guarantees are given.
| > If the standard doesn't intend this to be true, that makes the array
| > form nearly useless, no?
| >
| > If the standard does intend this to be the case, then we don't need to
| > loop with widen(char) and can use the array form instead.
|
| Absolutely you can use the array form. Anybody who suggested that
| anything should work right when widen gives different results for
| single char and array forms would be laughed off the list.
that is not an attitude that makes it possible to have any sound
technical work.
-- Gaby