25 Nov
2004
25 Nov
'04
2 a.m.
On 2004-11-24, Simon Marlow
On 23 November 2004 20:34, Lennart Augustsson wrote: I'd like to pull this in, or something like it. IMHO, the lack of static type safety is outweighed by the shear convenience, and it's too small to provide as a separate library.
It'd be nice to have
hPrintf :: (PrintfType a) -> Handle -> String -> a
Don't forget sprintf, though I haven't yet studied this code enough to figure out how to do it with this model. sprintf could and should be a pure function that can be executed outside the IO monad. Quite useful for, say, internals of a string generation routine. -- John