For non-formatted printing, I find that bprintf (using Buffer.t) is the
more composable primitive.

On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 4:16 AM, Rodolphe Lepigre <
rodolphe.lepigre@univ-savoie.fr> wrote:

> Thanks for your answer!
>
> > I don't think this is possible with Printf.  But if you can switch to
> Format
> > you can use Format.asprintf instead.
>
> Yes, I know it is possible to use Format. This is actually what I am doing
> currently! However, I am not using any of the formating features, so I'd
> like to switch to Printf to avoid going from channels to formatters all the
> time...
>
> >> Dear list,
> >>
> >> If I define two values
> >>
> >>   val p : type out_channel -> blop -> unit
> >>   val e : blop
> >>
> >> then I can do something like
> >>
> >>   Printf.printf "%a" p e
> >>
> >> but I can't find a way to do something like
> >>
> >>   Printf.sprintf "%a" p e
> >>
> >> which is not well-typed. Is there any trick that I can use to avoid
> >> changing the type of [p] to [blop -> string]?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Rodolphe
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rodolphe
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> On 08/07/2016 10:08, Nicolas Ojeda Bar wrote:
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