[Haskell-cafe] Very crazy

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Sep 25, 2007, at 5:56 , Andrew Coppin wrote:

> More seriously, I have no idea how you'd implement this in Haskell.  
> Presumably the standard show instance for Int, Double, etc. is in  
> native C? You could probably reimplement it in Haskell for the  
> integer case, but not for floating-point...

Actually, Text.Printf is pure Haskell.  (Very *scary* Haskell:  deep  
type hackery is needed to make it work.  Don't try to understand  
PrintfType.  :)

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