The Glory of Six Dots
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Proposal treats the old variadic C-style syntax as a usable parameter-pack syntax and defines a class-template partial specialization for std::function that captures one fixed parameter followed by a variadic pack. The specialization exposes operator() and implements forwarding by assign from vprintf, so a printf clone only needs that declaration and assignment. Proof-of-concept compiles under clang with warnings but is valid C++ and demonstrates practical interop between printf-style APIs and type-safe callables.
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