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I used to think so too, especially because very basic examples with `printf!()` look "odd", but I started to like it: it gives me confidence that regular function calls won't do anything bizarre.

It's a warning that there's "magic" going on. It makes it clear that there's a lot of quirky compile-time type checking trickery behind printf, it tells that regex is going to be precompiled, etc.



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