>>>>> "pw" == Pierre Weis <pierre.weis@inria.fr> writes:

    pw> Here, we want to design and implement a practical, compact,
    pw> simple to understand, and easy way to print and scan in the
    pw> context of a functional language with full-fledged imperative
    pw> features (we are not in a lazy context where monades are
    pw> mandatory anyway).

Right right, I agree that the scanf that's coming is a better solution
for O'Caml.  But on the other hand, I prefer combinator parsing (even
in O'Caml where it's slightly awkward) to the stream parsers in
O'Caml.  And sometimes I like to use combinator formatters rather than
printf.  There's a place for both kinds of things.  :)

John.

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