Re: [Caml-list] Does this function exist?

[Lukasz Lew <ll189417@zodiac.mimuw.edu.pl>]

>     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.

OK, so I want just "[3; 3]", (no type information),

I can use printf, but it isn't very easy to write when you have i.e. 
list of pairs of lists. And i believe that there is unversal ``print''.
Can you help?

Lukasz Lew

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