<div dir="ltr">I too would favor pushing it out to the platform.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Bart Massey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bart@cs.pdx.edu" target="_blank">bart@cs.pdx.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It doesn't seem to me that Text.Printf belongs in base. Indeed, I<br>
avoided using Data.Set in the implementation (and I think Lennart did<br>
as well, as there's an obvious place for it) partly to avoid the whole<br>
base/containers disaster. --Bart<br>
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On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Gershom Bazerman <<a href="mailto:gershomb@gmail.com">gershomb@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 9/6/13 3:55 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> That's hardly relevant, as it sounds like Bart's work marks a considerable<br>
>> improvement to the existing printf code. Surely we should evaluate it on<br>
>> that basis, and not because it's not something entirely different.<br>
>><br>
>> Lennart, are you on the libraries@ list? If Bart's work passes review and<br>
>> seems backwards compatible, do you have any objection to moving from your<br>
>> printf implementation to his?<br>
>><br>
> (cc Lennart directly, just in case)<br>
><br>
> As far as I know, the current Printf has gone unpatched for years and<br>
> effectively unmaintained. I'd like to propose A) that we seriously consider<br>
> Bart's rewrite/replacement, and B) that in so doing we also seriously<br>
> consider moving it _out_ of base and _into_ the platform, as part of our<br>
> general slimming-down base process.<br>
><br>
> Thoughts?<br>
><br>
> --Gershom<br>
><br>
><br>
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