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From: Gabriel Kerneis <gabriel@kerneis.info>
To: Tianyi Cui <tcui@janestreet.com>
Cc: OCaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Extending Format strings
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 15:39:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <468a14a33d21f1ee3bdadbce329f9c7c@kerneis.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANgsapYP717mRx-V3BW2r3VE8TufTei00cNOoMqPgv0FrJKb3A@mail.gmail.com>

Le 2014-07-01 15:15, Tianyi Cui a écrit :
> I found https://github.com/janestreet/custom_printf [5] quite
> straightforward to understand and easy to use, if most of your types
> already have sexp converters and to_string functions.

Thanks. This is a nice hack (provided you are happy to use a 
pre-processor). However, if I understand correctly, it is limited to 
making %s and %a more convenient to use for existing Printf functions.

I should probably have given more details in my initial request. CIL's 
Pretty.dprintf [1] constructs and returns a "document" (similar to 
PPrint.document, if you are more familiar with this library), to be 
later formated and rendered to a given width. I am not sure 
custom_printf provides that level of flexibility.

[1] 
http://kerneis.github.io/cil/doc/html/cil/api/Pretty.html#VALdprintf

Best,
-- 
Gabriel

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-01 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-01  9:59 Gabriel Kerneis
2014-07-01 14:15 ` Tianyi Cui
2014-07-01 14:39   ` Gabriel Kerneis [this message]
2014-07-01 15:27 ` Jeremie Dimino
2014-07-01 16:06   ` Alain Frisch
2014-07-02  9:27     ` Gabriel Kerneis
2014-07-02 13:34       ` Gabriel Scherer

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