read_int
read_line
read_float 

are all in Pervasives.

-- Manos

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 12:11:08AM +0300, Serge wrote:
> 
> Gentlemen!
> 
> I think this might be kinda offtopic, but nevertheless. OCaml is being
> extensively employed for educational purposes, and it looks like it is
> still missing an important feature - the one of easy reading numbers
> (integers/floats/doubles) from, say, standard input. You have to read
> lines and parse numbers out of them. For instance, in Pascal it was
> possible to do "read(x)". 
> 
> Absence of such feature distracts people from trying to program sensible
> things in OCaml. It would be nice to have such functionality in the
> standard library.
> 
> I do not wish to start a rant like "let us include simplex method in the
> std since it is gravely important" etc., but I do think that _ability to
> read numbers from stdin in a standard way_ is very important for the
> language like OCaml - because students want it very much, and it is not
> ugly in any way.
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Serge S. Bityukov, Moscow State University, Dept of Mechanics and Mathematics
> 
> 
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