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From: Keith Wansbrough <Keith.Wansbrough@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: "Sébastien Hinderer" <Sebastien.Hinderer@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Continuations
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:46:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Bwe4u-00088T-00@mta1.cl.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Aug 2004 23:27:22 +0200." <20040813212722.GA1158@galois>

> Could someone explain me how the functions from the Printf module work, and
> why continuations allow to consume the extra arguments given after the
> format string ?

OCaml contains special magic to parse the format strings - they aren't
really strings.  Try doing

Printf.printf (if true then "%s,%s" else "%s.%s") "foo" "bar"

and see what happens...  (you have to use Pervasives.format_of_string
to make it work).

--KW 8-)



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  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-16  9:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-13 21:27 Sébastien Hinderer
2004-08-16  9:46 ` Keith Wansbrough [this message]
2004-08-23 22:32 ` Nathaniel Gray
2004-08-24  6:47   ` skaller
2004-08-24 22:18     ` Nathaniel Gray
2004-08-25 11:13       ` skaller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-30 15:24 Continuations Tom
2006-08-30 17:08 ` [Caml-list] Continuations Jacques Carette
2002-12-10 18:49 Ceri Storey
2002-12-11  9:19 ` Christophe Raffalli

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