RE: [Caml-list] String.create

[David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com>]

av1474@comtv.ru wrote:
> Sébastien Hinderer <Sebastien.Hinderer@inria.fr> writes:
> 
> > Dear all,
> >
> > OCaml 4.02.0 prints the following warning:
> > Warning 3: deprecated: String.create
> >
> > The code that triggers this warning looks like this:
> >
> > let buf = String.create size in
> > really_input ic buf 0 size;
> >
> > Is there a way to fix the code so that it does not trigger this
> > warning but still compiles also with older versions of Caml, up to 3.10?
> >
> 
> String.make

Not a great solution (even ignoring the semantic differences between Bytes.create and String.make) - really_input has signature in_channel -> *bytes* -> int -> int -> unit for OCaml >= 4.02, so this will break in the future when -safe-string becomes the default.


David