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 SAA19124; Wed, 1 May 2002 18:06:44 +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 SAA19120 for ; Wed, 1 May 2002 18:06:43 +0200 (MET DST) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from chinon (aboukir-101-1-17-jmarant.adsl.nerim.net [62.212.105.6]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g41G6gX18079 for ; Wed, 1 May 2002 18:06:43 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from jerome by chinon with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 172wcs-00009y-00 for ; Wed, 01 May 2002 18:06:42 +0200 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] printf and scanf References: <20020430135147.GA29653@hell.mine.nu> From: jmarant@free.fr (=?iso-8859-1?q?J=E9r=F4me?= Marant) Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 18:06:42 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20020430135147.GA29653@hell.mine.nu> (Francois-Rene Rideau's message of "Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:51:47 +0200") Message-ID: <87n0vjkg31.fsf@marant.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Francois-Rene Rideau writes: > Runtime processing of format string is more problematic, > but who needs that, anyway? Instead of concatenating format strings, There are some cases where you may know the format string only at runtime; the most obvious example is internationalization through something like gettext. Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org ------------------- 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