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From: Jim <jim@farrand.net>
To: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Print values like the toplevel's printer
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 11:15:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041106111523.GB24365@draco.skynet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200411051323.13339.wolfgang.mueller2@uni-bayreuth.de>

On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 01:23:13PM +0100, Wolfgang Müller wrote:

> I would like to print values to a file in a human-readable manner without 
> having to compose the output writers of print_int and friends. In short, I 
> would like to use the toplevel's function for screen output of structured 
> values.
> 
> Is there a simple way, a FM or a mailing list you can point me to?
> 
> I googled quite a bit, but apparently not with the right terms.

Aside from clever uses of various bits of the top level, you can also
use camlp4 to automatically generate print functions for types.  I think
there is an example in the camlp4 manual.

What we really need is generics.  I thought there was a post in the
mailing list some time ago saying that generics was going to be
appear in O'Caml at some point, but I haven't seen anything for a long
time.  Does anyone know if it is still planned?

Regards,
Jim


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-11-06 11:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-05 12:23 Wolfgang Müller
2004-11-05 13:31 ` [Caml-list] " padiolea
2004-11-05 13:54   ` Wolfgang Müller
2004-11-05 15:51     ` pad
2004-11-05 18:07       ` [Too hard?] Print values like the toplevel's printerI Wolfgang Müller
2004-11-05 18:28         ` [Caml-list] " pad
2004-11-05 18:54         ` Martin Jambon
2004-11-05 19:26           ` Frédéric Gava
2004-11-05 20:01             ` [Caml-list] [Too hard?] Print values like the toplevel's printer Wolfgang Müller
2004-11-06 11:15 ` Jim [this message]
2004-11-08 23:44   ` [Caml-list] " brogoff
2004-11-09  8:48     ` Daniel Bünzli
2004-11-05 22:12 Clément Capel
2004-11-05 23:15 Clément Capel

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