From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA13556; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:13:52 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA13552 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:13:51 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp [130.54.16.1]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g3I8Dmb14504 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:13:49 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (suiren.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp [130.54.16.25]) by kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (8.9.3/3.7W) with ESMTP id RAA19529; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 17:13:38 +0900 (JST) To: jerome.marant@fr.thalesgroup.com Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Printf and i18n In-Reply-To: <20020418100241.B2735@fr.thalesgroup.com> References: <87ads2rzu8.fsf@marant.org> <20020418084753.A11351@verdot.inria.fr> <20020418100241.B2735@fr.thalesgroup.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.2 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20020418171338C.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 17:13:38 +0900 From: Jacques Garrigue X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > One more question : could you (or any other OCaml developer) give some > explainations about the Obj module since, even "not for the casual user", > it can be usefull sometimes (well at least for you and in the printf > functions)? The Obj module lets you access the internal representation of ocaml objects, as desribed in the "Interfacing with C" section of the manual. Once you have understood the details of this representation, you can start using it sparingly, to avoid having to write external C functions. i.e. it is best seen as an alternative to writing C code, and is not much safer than that (just a bit easier at the GC level). Jacques ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners