Re: [Haskell-cafe] Pure Haskell Printf

On Tuesday 16 November 2004 10:37, Henning Thielemann wrote:

Variable length argument lists are really a mess. Why are people so keen on them? What is the advantage over a plain list as single argument? Is vsprintf "%s, your age is %s\n" ["John", show (10::Integer)] really too complicated?

The implementation of printf in ocaml, for example, is not only type-safe, but "more type safe" than passing a list, because the number and type of arguments is known at compile time. V.