From: utzoo!decvax!cca!ima!johnl
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re(2): %r format item is gone
Article-I.D.: ima.212
Posted: Tue Sep  7 11:57:00 1982
Received: Wed Sep  8 02:13:46 1982

I hear that %r is gone from System III because Dennis Ritchie felt it
was excessively unportable.  It pretty much assumes that if you pass
the wrong number of arguments to a function, they're matched up left
to right, and that you can treat the arguments to a function as a
vector.

At INTERACTIVE Systems, when we cranked up System III we missed %r
enough that we added new stdio functions that give you pretty much
the same power but use the more portable va_args stuff.  Others
might want to do the same.

John Levine, decvax!cca!ima!johnl, harpo!esquire!ima!johnl (uucp)
	     Levine@YALE (Arpa), 617-491-5450 (desperation)

--------