[bitc-dev] Opinions wanted: Infix shift operators

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Christopher Gilbreth
<cngilbreth at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> If you pass in the items to be formatted as a tuple, you shouldn't need to
> overload on arity, right?
>
> printf("hello %s %s %s", ("Shap", "Ben", "Chris"))
>

Right. Now you need to make printf into a typeclass method and overload on
the tuple type. One problem with this is that you can't get a type-based
correlation between the format string and the rest of the arguments without
a fair bit of thuggery.

The IOStream-style syntax doesn't have this limitation, and if properly
optimized it's potentially more efficient than the C-style streams design.
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