Re: [Caml-list] kprintf with user formatters

[Markus Mottl <markus@oefai.at>]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Damien wrote:
> I had the same problem a month ago,
> I ended with the following ugly function:
> 
> let log b fmt = 
>   if b then Printf.printf fmt
>   else 
>     let rec f x = Obj.magic f in 
>       f fmt
> (* val f: bool -> ('a, out_channel, unit) format -> 'a *)
> 
> (I think this is safe since f just eats its arguments, 
>  and gets typed with "-rectypes" : ('b->'a) as 'a)
> 
> maybe a function "zprintf" could be added to Printf and Format to do
> this job ?

Thanks for the hint, this works for me!  I also think that there should be
some kind of "zprintf"-function in the standard library.  Forcing people
to use "-rectypes" or "Obj.magic" is evil.

Regards,
Markus

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