On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 at 18:48, Jason McKesson via Std-Proposals <
std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 1:41 PM Lee Shallis via Std-Proposals
> <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> > since hh, h, etc are unused I decided to use them in my own
> > implementation (separate name to standard printf) and just now thought
> > to suggest them.
> >
> > hh = char8_t (In my equivalent typedef I chose to default to wchar_t
> > when char is too small in a non standards compliant implementation)
> > h = char16_t
> > ll = char32_t (since l is reserved for wchar_t and the lack thereof for
> char)
> > t = tchar_t (TCHAR on windows and char on linux)
> > j = char32_t (since that's currently the biggest there is, we never
> > know if we'll ever need bigger, for example space alien character sets
> > - assuming they exist)
> >
> > I also used v as a modifier for intptr_t/uintptr_t, took it from void*
> >
> > Also I think .* should be used to indicate the max characters to scan
> > for any string, for example
> >
> > #define LENG 7
> > char name[LENG+1] = "";
> > scanf("%.*s",LENG,name);
> >
> > With the input of "Hello world!" would give "Hello w"
>
> Why do we want to improve type-unsafe tools like `printf` when we have
> type-safe tools like `std::format`? We don't quite have a scanf
> equivalent yet, but it'd be better to work on that.
>

And any changes to printf would have to go through the C committee (WG14)
not the C++ committee.