Re: [ gnuplot-Patches-992149 ] String variables revisited

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> > I will prefer sprintf(). That's compatible to all our famous programming
> > languages and does not require user to search / think "what kind of command
> > has gnuplot for sprintf?".
>
> But then, we have to rename `print', too. Or, at least introduce a new
> command `printf' which uses the same syntax as sprintf and prints to the
> shell (as `print' does with a different syntax).

I don't see a problem. sprintf() is a function which creates a string, while
print is a command to print something on screen.

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