From: Virgile Prevosto <virgile.prevosto@m4x.org>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Request for comments: Printf list conversion
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:27:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060112142710.3baabb9b@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9A1DDF7A-B006-4DE7-B44D-7866F3D5D525@inria.fr>
Le jeu 12 jan 2006 13:55:56 CET, Damien Doligez a écrit:
> On Jan 12, 2006, at 10:55, Jean-Christophe Filliatre wrote:
>
> > val print_list :
> > ?sep:(formatter -> unit -> unit) ->
> > (formatter -> 'a -> unit) -> formatter -> 'a list -> unit
> >
> Yuck. Isn't this type (formatter -> unit -> unit) isomorphic to string,
> in the absence of side-effects? Or do you really need separators that
> behave differently depending on the state of some reference?
>
With Format, yes: you may want to use the pretty-printing features of the
module, and for instance add a break hint after each element of the list.
For Printf, on the other hand, I guess that a string would be good enough
--
E tutto per oggi, a la prossima volta
Virgile
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-12 13:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-12 9:19 Alessandro Baretta
2006-01-12 9:31 ` [Caml-list] " Jean-Marc EBER
2006-01-12 9:55 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2006-01-12 12:55 ` Damien Doligez
2006-01-12 13:27 ` Virgile Prevosto [this message]
2006-01-13 8:47 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2006-01-12 15:50 ` Bill Wood
2006-01-12 17:39 ` Richard Jones
2006-01-12 19:29 ` Bill Wood
2006-01-13 9:31 ` Hendrik Tews
2006-01-13 16:28 ` Bill Wood
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