Module Core_printf

Signature

val fprintf : Pervasives.out_channel -> ('r, Pervasives.out_channel, unit) Pervasives.format -> 'r

val printf : ('r, Pervasives.out_channel, unit) Pervasives.format -> 'r

val eprintf : ('r, Pervasives.out_channel, unit) Pervasives.format -> 'r

val ifprintf : 'a -> ('r, 'a, unit) Pervasives.format -> 'r

val sprintf : ('r, unit, string) Pervasives.format -> 'r

val bprintf : Buffer.t -> ('r, Buffer.t, unit) Pervasives.format -> 'r

val kfprintf : (Pervasives.out_channel -> 'a) -> Pervasives.out_channel -> ('r, Pervasives.out_channel, unit, 'a) Pervasives.format4 -> 'r

val ksprintf : (string -> 'a) -> ('r, unit, string, 'a) Pervasives.format4 -> 'r

val kbprintf : (Buffer.t -> 'a) -> Buffer.t -> ('r, Buffer.t, unit, 'a) Pervasives.format4 -> 'r

Formatting error and exit functions

These functions have polymorphic return type, since they do not return. Naively, this doesn't mix well with variadic functions: if you define, say,


      let f fmt = ksprintf (fun s -> failwith s) fmt

then you find that f "%d" : int -> 'a, as you'd expect, and f "%d" 7 : 'a. The problem with this is that 'a unifies with (say) int -> 'b, so f "%d" 7 4 is not a type error -- the 4 is simply ignored.

To mitigate this problem, these functions all take a final unit parameter. These rarely arise as formatting positional parameters (they can do with e.g. "%a", but not in a useful way) so they serve as an effective signpost for "end of formatting arguments".

val failwithf : ('r, unit, string, unit -> _) Pervasives.format4 -> 'r

raises Failure

val invalid_argf : ('r, unit, string, unit -> _) Pervasives.format4 -> 'r

raises Invalid_arg

val exitf : ('r, unit, string, unit -> _) Pervasives.format4 -> 'r

print to stderr; exit 1