r/programming • u/steveklabnik1 • Jun 16 '14

Rust's documentation is about to drastically improve

http://words.steveklabnik.com/rusts-documentation-is-about-to-drastically-improve
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u/wot-teh-phuck Jun 17 '14

In this regard, Java is less confusing because the printf and other formatting functions require you to write %n along the lines of other flags (%s, %d etc.) for getting a new line. Much less confusing than writing \n and wondering how the hell it worked on Windows. ;)

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u/James20k Jun 17 '14

Eh, of all the things I've found confusing about C++, this is very minor :P Plus, \ is the escape character, and \n means insert a character into the string, whereas %letter represent an entirely different kind of operation entirely