From: nunojsilva@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 2026-02-08, rbowman wrote:   
      
   > On Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:26:55 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2026-02-07, rbowman  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Sat, 07 Feb 2026 15:36:18 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> It’s not like Java has a monopoly on being arbitrary and weird!   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   int fputs(const char *s, FILE *stream);   
   >>>>   int fprintf(FILE *stream, const char *format, ...);   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Whether the stream argument is first or last depends which function   
   >>>> you’re using.   
   >>>   
   >>> After all these years I use 'man fputs' more than I should. Then you   
   >>> throw in the similar functions that take an int file descriptor rather   
   >>> than a FILE*.   
   >>>   
   >>> I'd still rather deal with that arbitrariness than C++'s streams.   
   >>   
   >> I deal with those by remembering that fputs() can have any number of   
   >> arguments, so we might as well get the file pointer out there first. On   
   >> the other hand, putc() only has one argument, so fputc() adds the file   
   >> pointer at the end.  Then I just have to remember how the arguments go   
   >> with fgets() - and I've replaced it with getline(), which is quite   
   >> similar.  I always read strings and parse them myself, so that about   
   >> covers I/O for me.   
   >   
   > man fputs   
      
   (It looks to me, albeit still undercaffeinated, that Charlie simply   
   mixed/mistyped that function name. Could it perhaps be meant to be   
   fprintf()?)   
      
   > SYNOPSIS   
   >        #include    
   >   
   >        int fputc(int c, FILE *stream);   
   >        int putc(int c, FILE *stream);   
   >        int putchar(int c);   
   >   
   >        int fputs(const char *restrict s, FILE *restrict stream);   
   >        int puts(const char *s);   
   >   
   >   
   >   
      
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