<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">And neither does go.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> fmt.Print(x)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">prints x, using its default format, which is not coincidentally available in Printf as %v.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">-rob</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 7:17 AM Douglas McIlroy <<a href="mailto:douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu">douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">> Most of the time I'd rather not have to care whether the thing<br>
> I'm printing is a string, or a pointer, or an integer, or whatever:<br>
> I just want to see its value.<br>
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> Go has %v for exactly this. It's very nice for debugging.<br>
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Why so verbose? In Basic, PRINT required no formatting directives at all.<br>
<br>
Doug<br>
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