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 KAA13884; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:23:00 +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 KAA13880 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:22:59 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from relay.pair.com (relay1.pair.com [209.68.1.20]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g3I8Mvb14965 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:22:58 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (qmail 17380 invoked from network); 18 Apr 2002 08:22:55 -0000 Received: from adsl-host-sf-228.apexworld.net (HELO checkerlap.d6.com) (66.114.212.228) by relay1.pair.com with SMTP; 18 Apr 2002 08:22:55 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 66.114.212.228 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020418011611.02bd9360@mail.d6.com> X-Sender: checker@mail.d6.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 01:17:59 -0700 To: Jacques Garrigue , jerome.marant@fr.thalesgroup.com From: Chris Hecker Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Printf and i18n Cc: caml-list@inria.fr In-Reply-To: <20020418171338C.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> References: <20020418100241.B2735@fr.thalesgroup.com> <87ads2rzu8.fsf@marant.org> <20020418084753.A11351@verdot.inria.fr> <20020418100241.B2735@fr.thalesgroup.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk >The Obj module lets you access the internal representation of ocaml >objects, as desribed in the "Interfacing with C" section of the >manual. It might be useful to explain the printf format string hackery in the manual. It's the only "legitimate" use of Obj.magic; you have to use it if you want to do varargs style functions like printf and parse the strings. Or, is there another use of it in the standard library that I'm missing? Chris ------------------- 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