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

[arnold]

Perhaps I should fix the user's guide then.

You can define functions with the same name as gawk extensions, in
different namespaces:

        function foo::strtonum() { ... }

but not for the ones defined by POSIX.

Arnold

Wolfgang Laun <wolfgang.laun@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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