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From: David Brown <caml-list@davidb.org>
To: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Andrej Bauer <Andrej.Bauer@andrej.com>,
	Christophe TROESTLER <debian00@tiscali.be>,
	"O'Caml Mailing List" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Polymorphic pretty printing
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:02:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041025030217.GB1582@old.davidb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1098666276.3075.65.camel@pelican.wigram>

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 11:04:36AM +1000, skaller 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?

  sprintf "%04d/%02d/%02d %02d:%02d:%02d" y m d h m s

becomes rather verbose and clumsy when written out as functions.

Dave

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-25  3:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-18 15:42 Andrej Bauer
2004-10-22 22:07 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2004-10-24 20:54   ` Andrej Bauer
2004-10-25  1:04     ` skaller
2004-10-25  3:02       ` David Brown [this message]
2004-10-25  7:26         ` Andrej Bauer
2004-10-25 14:45     ` Jon Harrop
2004-11-26 22:54   ` Frédéric Gava

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