[Nickle] Various nits/bugs/defects

[Carl Worth]

On Jun 16, Bart Massey wrote:
 > In message <E19S85J-0002kt-00 at localhost> you wrote:
 > > 
 > > You never need vprintf; you can just use printf:
 > > 
 > > 	printf ("%d %d %d\n", (int[3]) { 1, 2, 3} ... )
 > > 
 > > -keith
 >
 > When did you add that beauty?  Frightening, but harmless, I
 > guess.

I think this is actually an important feature.

One of my long-standing frustrations with C is that it's easy for a
library writer to export a function with a "..."  interface and no
matching va_list interface. Even Keith falls into this, (see
eg. XftFontOpen). The problem with this situation is that it's
impossible to wrap a function using the "..." interface with another
function with the same interface.

So, for variadic functions in C, they must always come in pairs.
What a pain.

 > At any rate, for those of us who are not aware of the undocumented
 > intricacies of Nickle, vprintf() is nice to have around also :-).
 > After all, I note that you now could also remove vfprintf() and
 > basically all the v*() functions.
 > 
 > I'd advise leaving them in as a convenience

Documentation is the only bug here. I'd advise ripping out all the
uselessly redundant interfaces.

-Carl

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Carl Worth                                        
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