From: "Nathan Mishra Linger" <nathan.mishralinger@gmail.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: surprised by string_of_bool
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 16:10:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ab0c618e0805271610sf3d1859w8fd51243b0aa598a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Consider the following transcript.
Objective Caml version 3.10.0
# string_of_bool true == string_of_bool true;;
- : bool = true
# String.fill (string_of_bool true) 0 4 '@';;
- : unit = ()
# string_of_bool true;;
- : string = "@@@@"
Perhaps this has been discussed before, but I found this to be disturbing.
It seems easy enough to fix this problem, so that, for example, print_string
(string_of_bool true) always does the same thing.
The "correct" strategy seems to be used for string_of_float infinity:
# string_of_float infinity;;
- : string = "inf"
# string_of_float infinity == string_of_float infinity;;
- : bool = false
Nathan Mishra-Linger
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next reply other threads:[~2008-05-27 23:10 UTC|newest]
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2008-05-27 23:10 Nathan Mishra Linger [this message]
2008-05-28 8:02 ` [Caml-list] " David Allsopp
2008-05-28 8:14 ` Jon Harrop
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