Re: print and printf() function not in FUNCTAB or PROCINFO

[Wolfgang Laun]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2022 at 19:59, <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:

>
> As Andy said, print and printf are not functions. They're reserved
> words. If you do something like
>
>         x = printf("hello\n")
>
> you will get a syntax error.
>

The GNU awk user's guide has a list of reserved words, called keywords. The
list does not include print and printf. There may be a way to use all the
"reserved identifiers" that are not keywords (such as the names of built-in
functions) as names for user-defined objects but I haven't found one.
Wolfgang Laun