25 Sep
2007
25 Sep
'07
10:01 a.m.
On Sep 25, 2007, at 5:56 , Andrew Coppin wrote:
More seriously, I have no idea how you'd implement this in Haskell. Presumably the standard show instance for Int, Double, etc. is in native C? You could probably reimplement it in Haskell for the integer case, but not for floating-point...
Actually, Text.Printf is pure Haskell. (Very *scary* Haskell: deep type hackery is needed to make it work. Don't try to understand PrintfType. :) -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH