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From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: "HENRIKSON, JEFFREY" <JEFHEN@SAFECO.com>
Cc: Andrej Bauer <Andrej.Bauer@andrej.com>, caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] replacing Mathematica was: Polymorphic pretty printing
Date: 28 Oct 2004 15:30:44 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1098941443.7061.138.camel@pelican.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9410EC84C0872141B27A2726613EF45D02A52DE0@psmrdcex01.psm.pin.safeco.com>

On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 05:15, HENRIKSON, JEFFREY wrote:

> > I'm curious why people want to use these kinds of routines. What does 
> > printf style mini-language printing have to offer compared to just
> using 
> > plain old Ocaml functions?
> 
> Sounds like Skaller doesn't like toplevels.  Fine with me.  I like them.

I don't dislike them -- I think it is more that I'm
not using them heavily, and didn't really understand the
need for pretty printing .. I do now. 

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-28  5:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-27 19:15 HENRIKSON, JEFFREY
2004-10-28  5:30 ` skaller [this message]
2004-10-28 11:25 ` Andrej Bauer
2004-10-28 13:11   ` [Caml-list] " Christophe TROESTLER
2004-10-28 20:45     ` Andrej Bauer
2004-10-29 13:01       ` Christophe TROESTLER
2004-10-28 21:44     ` Jon Harrop
2004-10-29 13:11       ` Christophe TROESTLER

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