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From: julianmig...@gmail.com
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Subject: Re: request for feedback: making foreign function calls to C
 printf-style functions safer
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I think that any error or warning message that could increase the safety is always a good thing. 
Calling the printf C function from Modula-2 is useful, but programmers could use it in a wrong way, a pragma that prints an error or warning on the use of this 
particular feature is a good idea.
Julian Miglio