Thinking C++, rather than C
I'm going to be controvertial... Nothing new about that, but here is comes... Are you ready? If you are a C++ programmer, and you are using sprintf, you are not writing C++. There, I've said it, I can't take it back. Obviously now, I need to qualify this statement, so lets begin. Obviously, I am over simplifying, and C++ programs can contain calls to sprintf and still be put through the C++ compiler to receive working object code, so I'm not discounting the use of sprintf in C++ programs. What I'm trying to tell you is that, if you are writing C++, designing C++, and sprintf is your goto method of truncating and outputting various raw data formats together as a string, then you are NOT thinking C++. You are infact thinking C... Lets hear why this might be a bad idea... Its about how you are thinking, you are not thinking in the skill-set you think you are. And though I make a point about sprintf, I am talking about anything within C, if you happen to elect to use