[clean-list] Calling C with side effects

[John van Groningen]

Matthew Bromberg wrote:
>WriteFile or better the stream libraries are just fine, however the only way to format a Real type into text, that I've currently found is
>to use toString.  Imagine therefore trying to print out, say exp(20) in 8 characters or less.  It requires exponential notation.
>That's why I found myself longing for a printf function to format floating point numbers and print to the console. Are there
>any other functions available for producing formatted floating point?

No, not yet. Maybe you can use the toStringWith function from the language shootout:

http://darcs.complete.org/local-branches/shootout.upstream/bench/Include/clean/LanguageShootout.icl

Regards,

John van Groningen