On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Anastasia Gornostaeva wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 09:15:37PM +0000, Peter Gregory wrote:
>
>> I take a different reading to you Martin, although I think it is
>> confusing.  I believe that the number specified before the dollar sign
>> is the argument that specifies the /precision/ of the output.
>>
>> So, it is not to specify the argument to print, but the argument to use
>> as precision.  That said, I tried it in the context they suggest and I
>> couldn't make it work!
>>
>> Ermine: do you have a situation where this is important?  I can't think
>> of any situation that comes to mind.
>
> For example:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_mono/gettext.html#SEC18
>
> In fact I have my own module for translations and i'm interesting in this
> printf's feature.

OK, so you really want to invert the order of the arguments :-)

You might want to use a syntax extension like xstrp4 or 
heredoc.

http://www.ocaml-programming.de/packages/documentation/xstrp4/
http://www.eleves.ens.fr/home/frisch/info/HereDoc.html



Martin

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