Why is std.string.format a c-style variadic function?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-09-26 05:39, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> I'm only asking because I can't use it inside of a pragma(msg) call
> since CTFE can't do C-style variadic functions yet. Is `format`
> defined this way for performance reasons? (to avoid template bloat?)

std.string.format is using a D-style variadic parameter list. This would 
be a C-style variadic parameter list:

extern (C) string format (int c, ...);

It might just be an old function from D1 when template tuple parameters 
where not just that much.

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/Jacob Carlborg