Re: Tabs As Syntax

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On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 10:10:33 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
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for (int n : { 2, 4, 6, 8 })
    std::cout << n << ", ";
 
std::cout << "who do we appreciate?" << std::endl
 
(std::endl is \n with a flush.

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cout never did much for me either. That's one of the areas that seemed
like a gratuitous departure from C.
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Then there is the Python
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print("Never again!", end="\r")

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operator << is useful with std::ostringstream when you want to avoid having
deal with allocating enough output space. Still, I use this a lot:
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    char temp[32];
    snprintf(temp, sizeof temp, "We have %d idiots here", idcount);
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Sometime a printf specification is just easier to read.
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The GNU compiler will even warn if the buffer isn't big enough to hold
the largest possible result.