From nickle at po8.org  Fri Mar  2 10:54:36 2007
From: nickle at po8.org (Bart Massey)
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:54:36 -0800
Subject: [Nickle] import File and String by default?
Message-ID: <E1HNCto-0006es-4I@po8.org>

I don't know any good reason why Nickle doesn't currently
have File and String imported by default; it's really
annoying IMHO.  Unless someone can give me a good reason not
to, I'm going to commit the change to do this...

	Bart

From nickle at po8.org  Sun Mar 18 02:08:04 2007
From: nickle at po8.org (Bart Massey)
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 02:08:04 -0700
Subject: [Nickle] Removed archaic "v" printing and scanning functions;
	buglet remains
Message-ID: <E1HSrMy-0002Ey-53@po8.org>

After talking over with Keith, I concluded that vfprintf(),
vfscanf(), and friends are no longer particularly useful in
Nickle.  The new syntax for expanding arguments does the
same job.  So I removed the "v" functions.

This is not quite a backward-compatible change.  If you had
code that looked like

   void myfn(string fmt, poly args ...) {
     vprintf(fmt, args);
   }

you now need to modify it to look like

   void myfn(string fmt, poly args ...) {
     printf(fmt, args ...);
   }

This is easier to read, and avoids some maintenance
problems.


Sadly, there appears to be a slight prettyprinting buglet
left.  Try invoking
  abort("%d", 1)
at the command line, and notice that in some parts of the
stack trace the second argument is elided.

	Bart