Re: Terminolgy: the verb corresponding to "toString"

From: bugbear <bugbear@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:53:14 +0100

Roedy Green wrote:

To me, "format" implies some sort of complicated masks or a choice of
layouts.

It has a long and noble history in software;

>> man -s 3 printf...
>>
>> The functions in the printf() family produce output according to a format as described below.

being quite familiar to most of us.

BugBear
.

References:
- Terminolgy: the verb corresponding to "toString"
  - From: Roedy Green

Prev by Date: Re: What does "persist" really mean ?
Next by Date: Re: Finding simple Java class for implementation of text recognition
Previous by thread: Re: Terminolgy: the verb corresponding to "toString"
Next by thread: Re: Terminolgy: the verb corresponding to "toString"
Index(es):
- Date
- Thread