On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 12:21:41PM +0100, Henning Thielemann wrote: > The function MissingH.Printf.sprintf is probably the better choice, but > one could even replace [Value] by [String]. The conversion from any type > to String can be easily done using 'show' by the caller. Though it gives > the author of the format string less control over the formatting of > particular types like numbers.
It seems to me that control over formatting of numbers is the only reason to use anything printf-like... but perhaps that's just because of the frequency with which I print (and read) doubles. -- David Roundy http://www.darcs.net _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe