From: Martin Jambon <martin1977@laposte.net>
To: Anastasia Gornostaeva <ermine@ermine.pp.ru>
Cc: Peter Gregory <Peter.Gregory@cis.strath.ac.uk>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] printf and positional specifier
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:46:40 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611111636050.2442@droopy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061111214052.GA15424@ermine.home>
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Anastasia Gornostaeva wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 09:15:37PM +0000, Peter Gregory wrote:
>
>> I take a different reading to you Martin, although I think it is
>> confusing. I believe that the number specified before the dollar sign
>> is the argument that specifies the /precision/ of the output.
>>
>> So, it is not to specify the argument to print, but the argument to use
>> as precision. That said, I tried it in the context they suggest and I
>> couldn't make it work!
>>
>> Ermine: do you have a situation where this is important? I can't think
>> of any situation that comes to mind.
>
> For example:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_mono/gettext.html#SEC18
>
> In fact I have my own module for translations and i'm interesting in this
> printf's feature.
OK, so you really want to invert the order of the arguments :-)
You might want to use a syntax extension like xstrp4 or
heredoc.
http://www.ocaml-programming.de/packages/documentation/xstrp4/
http://www.eleves.ens.fr/home/frisch/info/HereDoc.html
Martin
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Martin Jambon, PhD
http://martin.jambon.free.fr
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-11 20:12 Anastasia Gornostaeva
2006-11-11 20:35 ` [Caml-list] " Peter Gregory
2006-11-11 20:52 ` Martin Jambon
2006-11-11 21:15 ` Peter Gregory
2006-11-11 21:26 ` Martin Jambon
2006-11-11 21:40 ` Anastasia Gornostaeva
2006-11-12 0:46 ` Martin Jambon [this message]
2006-11-11 20:59 ` Anastasia Gornostaeva
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