Re: Text.Printf replacement?

I too would favor pushing it out to the platform. On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Bart Massey wrote:

It doesn't seem to me that Text.Printf belongs in base. Indeed, I avoided using Data.Set in the implementation (and I think Lennart did as well, as there's an obvious place for it) partly to avoid the whole base/containers disaster. --Bart

On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Gershom Bazerman wrote:

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On 9/6/13 3:55 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

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That's hardly relevant, as it sounds like Bart's work marks a

considerable

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improvement to the existing printf code. Surely we should evaluate it on that basis, and not because it's not something entirely different.

Lennart, are you on the libraries@ list? If Bart's work passes review and seems backwards compatible, do you have any objection to moving from your printf implementation to his?

(cc Lennart directly, just in case)

As far as I know, the current Printf has gone unpatched for years and effectively unmaintained. I'd like to propose A) that we seriously consider Bart's rewrite/replacement, and B) that in so doing we also seriously consider moving it _out_ of base and _into_ the platform, as part of our general slimming-down base process.

Thoughts?

--Gershom

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