On Jun 27, 2007, at 10:34 AM, Vincent Hanquez wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 12:11:01AM -0400, Jonathan Bryant wrote:
>> The OCaml standard library isn't glibc.  The implementation of the
>> Printf/Scanf modules is custom, OCaml specific and tied into the
>> compiler, so one should not assume the behave the same way.  They are
>> not simply wrappers.  As a matter of fact, they have several other
>> differences from the glibc printf family of functions (look at the
>> conversion specifiers in the docs).
>>
>>> As said above, this is not how printf is working in the glibc (at
>>> least on linux and Mac OS X). Any clue why the same convention has
>>> not been followed?
>>
>> See above.
>
> What about reading before replying ?
> Your "explanation" certainly doesn't answer his question.
> whether or not it's the same *implementation* doesn't answer why ocaml
> printf choosed a different *convention* (specially on this case  
> which I
> don't see any contradiction in the way ocaml works).

Thanks for your support ;)
I was starting to wonder why I was getting such dismissive answers

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Best Regards,
Quôc