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		flohofwoe on Aug 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Implementing a Type-safe printf in Rust POSIX printf() actually supports positional arguments: https://www.godbolt.org/z/xG15M5 Both clang and gcc support this, but unfortunately not the Microsoft C compiler. PS: actually, it does, just not in the normal printf call: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/print...

andralex on Aug 15, 2020 [–]

D also supports POSIX positional arguments: https://dlang.org/library/std/format/formatted_write.html

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