Re: [Caml-list] kprintf with user formatters

["Basile Starynkevitch [local]" <basile.starynkevitch@inria.fr>]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 03:45:30PM +0200, Markus Mottl wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Basile Starynkevitch [local] wrote:
> > I don't understand what this zprintf function should be,
> 
> It should parse the format string, and ignore format arguments following
> it.

let zprintf fmt = Printf.kprintf (fun _ -> ()) fmt
should be ok.

But I think that the format string should not even be parsed. I've got
no solution (except the one below) to this!

> 
> I don't think that this hack will be too dangerous.  You might get an
> exception 'Invalid_argument "equal: functional value"' if you want to
> compare those fancy unit-values, which is about the worst thing you
> can achieve.  But who would want to compare unit-values anyway?
> 
> > For what it's worth, long time ago, I ended writing a camlp4 extension
> > for a similar logging (or tracing purpose) see file README.trace and
> > pa_trace.ml of
> > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/poesia/PoesiaSoft/PoesiaMonIcap/
> 
> The preprocessor is not good enough for me.  I would like to change
> log levels at runtime, because the application is a server which should
> run permanently.

The above hack was written with the same requirements, and provide the
possibility to change log levels (or log flags actually).

Actually, I more and more hate printf, both in C and in Ocaml. I
really believe it is a nightmare.

A possible suggestion might be to 
  add a StopPrintf exception to Printf
and
  add a tryprintf function to Printf, which takes a prologue function
as an argument. If the prologue raises an exception, no formatting
occur;  otherwise, tryprintf works like kprintf

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