Re: [Caml-list] Printf question

[Mike Potanin <potanin@mccme.ru>]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 Alain.Frisch@ens.fr wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Richard Jones wrote:
>
> If you're ready to write
>
>   <:my_printf<The string: %s> "string with 'quotes'"

Simple example http://wtk.ru/pm/fp/caml/qprintf.tgz
It is more effective standart "dynamic" printf. :-)

>
> instead, you can write your own quotation expander with Camlp4 and
> implement the behavior you want.  Mmmh, a re-implementation of the
> Printf and Format modules with this technique would be nice.
> And also for Scanf (with a pattern quotation expander?).
>
> Yes, the typing of the printf functions are magic, and their
> implementation also. You cannot adapt their behavior without hacking the
> compiler and using the Obj module.
>
> -- Alain
>
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