On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:19:05PM +0200, Markus Mottl wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Daniel de Rauglaudre wrote:
> > BTW, it is perfectly possible to write printf as a Camlp4 syntax
> > extension not using the special type "format". In such an implementation,
> > "printf" is a keyword always followed by a string. Camlp4 analyses the
> > string and generates calls to print_string, print_int, and so on. The
> > result is normally typed by OCaml.
> 
> These are interesting proposals! I am sure that others would appreciate
> this very much, too...

  Well, this would make a static printf rather that the well known printf
  from C, since the format string may be known only at runtime in some
  cases.

-- 
Jérôme Marant
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