> Could someone explain me how the functions from the Printf module work, and
> why continuations allow to consume the extra arguments given after the
> format string ?

OCaml contains special magic to parse the format strings - they aren't
really strings.  Try doing

Printf.printf (if true then "%s,%s" else "%s.%s") "foo" "bar"

and see what happens...  (you have to use Pervasives.format_of_string
to make it work).

--KW 8-)



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