That's exactly the approach in the c-style portion of Formatting.jl.
On Thursday, December 4, 2014 8:49:15 PM UTC+7, Ivar Nesje wrote: > > A function wrapping Julia @sprintf will be typesafe, but will have > terrible performance. One could cache the generated functions though, so > that the format string will only be used as a lookup in a hash table that > points to the specialized (typesafe) function for that format string. >
