[Caml-list] printf and scanf

[Francois-Rene Rideau <fare@tunes.org>]

Jerome Marant wrote:
  There are some cases where you may know the format string
  only at runtime; the most obvious example is internationalization
  through something like gettext.

Rather, the format strings are known at compile-time,
but you don't know which string will be used.
So you can precompile all strings, and
select the right formatter at run-time.

Even if you want to do things at runtime, you can compile the default
string at compile-time, and then you know the type to expect.
Switching strings can then be done in a type-safe way: throw an exception
if the type of the replacement string's compiled printer doesn't match.
You'll need this type of mechanism, anyway.

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