Format Correctness |
The correctness of formats cannot be evaluated at compile-time. In fact, no format can be checked completely at compile-time because the final appearance on paper or on the screen must be checked by a human in each case.
It is possible to check the correctness of formats at run-time thanks to preconditions:
Therefore, the approach is not completely unsafe. Part of the class declaration is a set of routines that check the format string and parameters.
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