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Re:A quest for safe text formatting API by juloo on Sunday June 20, 2021 @05:48AM (#27568556)
Printf is type-safe in Haskell and OCaml. The format-string is not a regular string, it must be literal and is type-checked specifically.
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Re:A quest for safe text formatting API by tome on Sunday June 20, 2021 @06:00AM (#27568620)
Which printf in Haskell are you thinking of? This one doesn't fit your description, for example:

https://www.stackage.org/haddock/lts-18.0/base-4.14.1.0/Text...

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