Hello,

> Just today I have found a counterexample where C does a 
> better job than O'Caml--at least within the context of my 
> understanding of and ability with the two languages.
[..]
> I was not able to figure out an easy way to do this in 
> O'Caml. Of course, I could have used ocamllex and ocamlyacc 
> to define a lexer and a parser, but what I really needed was 
> a scanf function.

Ah, you should have waited for few days.
The module Scanf is available in the next O'Caml version 3.05, 
which will be distributed soon...

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Jun

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