Tore Lund wrote:

>   # let _ =
>       print_string "before";
>       print_string "MIDDLE";
>       print_string "after";;
>   beforeMIDDLEafter- : unit = ()
> 
> but not in this one:
> 
>   # let _ =
>       print_string "before";
>       Format.print_string "MIDDLE";
>       print_string "after";;
>   beforeafterMIDDLE- : unit = ()
> 
> What's going on here?  

	Buffering I guess. print_string buffers using stdio buffers.
Format.* has its own buffer, which is flushed into the
stdout buffer too late.


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