Format string literals can be created and inferred correctly like: let hello = "" ^^ "Hello, %s!" let () = Printf.printf hello "Bob" Is there a more direct way of entering the hello format string literal than using ^^?

You need to explicitely ask the typer for the format type. The Stdlib module provides a function format_of_string that does that for you, but it’s even longer than ^^.

Thanks folks. I assume format_of_string was intended to be the ‘canonical’ way to do it.

format_of_string is essentially given by let format_of_string (x : _ format6) = x, so I would say both ways are equally canonical. Best wishes, Nicolás

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nojb June 4, 2020, 3:31pm 3

Another way is to write let hello : _ format6 = "hello %s".

Best wishes,
Nicolás

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