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From: Anastasia Gornostaeva <ermine@ermine.pp.ru>
To: Peter Gregory <Peter.Gregory@cis.strath.ac.uk>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] printf and positional specifier
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:40:52 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061111214052.GA15424@ermine.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45563D79.4070207@cis.strath.ac.uk>

On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 09:15:37PM +0000, Peter Gregory wrote:

> I take a different reading to you Martin, although I think it is 
> confusing.  I believe that the number specified before the dollar sign 
> is the argument that specifies the /precision/ of the output.
> 
> So, it is not to specify the argument to print, but the argument to use 
> as precision.  That said, I tried it in the context they suggest and I 
> couldn't make it work!
> 
> Ermine: do you have a situation where this is important?  I can't think 
> of any situation that comes to mind.

For example:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_mono/gettext.html#SEC18

In fact I have my own module for translations and i'm interesting in this 
printf's feature.

P.s. Yes, I know about ocaml-gettext library.

ermine


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-11 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-11 20:12 Anastasia Gornostaeva
2006-11-11 20:35 ` [Caml-list] " Peter Gregory
2006-11-11 20:52   ` Martin Jambon
2006-11-11 21:15     ` Peter Gregory
2006-11-11 21:26       ` Martin Jambon
2006-11-11 21:40       ` Anastasia Gornostaeva [this message]
2006-11-12  0:46         ` Martin Jambon
2006-11-11 20:59   ` Anastasia Gornostaeva

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