From: John Prevost <j.prevost@cs.cmu.edu>
To: Lukasz Lew <ll189417@zodiac.mimuw.edu.pl>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Does this function exist?
Date: 09 Sep 2002 15:34:27 -0400 (81.559 UMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86hegzarek.fsf@laurelin.dementia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209091954090.11285-100000@zodiac.mimuw.edu.pl>
>>>>> "ll" == Lukasz Lew <ll189417@zodiac.mimuw.edu.pl> writes:
ll> Hello Is there in OCaml a function ['a -> ()] which would
ll> print striong representation of first arument on stdout, just
ll> like OcamlTop does?
ll> print [3; 3];;
ll> should print: "- : int list = [3; 3]"
ll> It would be very usefull for debugging. Lukasz Lew
It would be, but I don't believe that it's really possible--you need
type information in order to determine what to display, and that
information is not available at runtime. If you know the type of what
you're printing, you can always use printf.
John.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-09 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-09 17:56 Lukasz Lew
2002-09-09 19:34 ` John Prevost [this message]
2002-09-09 20:18 ` Lukasz Lew
2002-09-09 20:55 ` John Prevost
2002-09-09 20:59 ` Lukasz Lew
2002-09-17 16:21 ` Kontra, Gergely
2002-09-17 17:17 ` Florian Hars
2002-09-09 21:40 ` Yutaka OIWA
2002-09-09 23:10 ` Nicolas Cannasse
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209092212360.21417-100000@zodiac.mimuw.edu. pl>
2002-09-09 22:05 ` Chris Hecker
2002-09-09 22:48 ` Remi VANICAT
2002-09-10 1:10 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2002-09-16 16:56 ` Kontra, Gergely
2002-09-12 15:31 ` [Caml-list] " Michaël Grünewald
2002-09-18 23:01 [Caml-list] " Gurr, David (MED, self)
2002-09-18 23:01 Gurr, David (MED, self)
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