On Tuesday 16 November 2004 10:37, Henning Thielemann wrote: > Variable length argument lists are really a mess. Why are people so > keen on them? What is the advantage over a plain list as single > argument? Is vsprintf "%s, your age is %s\n" ["John", show > (10::Integer)] really too complicated?
The implementation of printf in ocaml, for example, is not only type-safe, but "more type safe" than passing a list, because the number and type of arguments is known at compile time. V. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
