[Haskell-cafe] Generic polyvariadic printf in Haskell98

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

oleg at okmij.org wrote:

> Still, the code is a bit unsatisfactory because of the appearances of
> "error" in pr_aux functions. The errors like passing too many or too
> few arguments to printf (as demanded by the format specification) are
> caught only at run-time. We can certainly do better.

I'd love to see it.

Coming from Ocaml one of the things  I miss is compile time
checking of printf arguments.

Erik
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