<kindaro>
Are there other such functions in the standard library?
<kindaro>
Is it used anywhere else at all?
<kindaro>
I suppose I can define my own `printf` if I am ready to forfeit the comfy format string literals and give it a value of a type of my own definition?
<companion_cube>
well, format strings are used in Printf and Format and Scanf
<companion_cube>
(personally I use them *a lot*)
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<dmbaturin>
Type-safe printing combinators are surprisingly trivial, if you forfeit format strings.
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<ear-the-art>
oops. i think he was confused that types have parameters.
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