[mercury-users] Is there something like string__from_anything?

[Fergus Henderson]

On 06-Sep-2001, Ondrej Bojar <oboj7042 at ss1000.ms.mff.cuni.cz> wrote:
> I wonder if there is a hidden predicate something like:
> 
> :- pred string__from_anything(T::in, string::out) is det.
> 
> It should do what io__write(T, io__state, io__state) does, that is print
> any structure in a human readable format, but the output should go into a
> string, not into an output stream.

Currently no.

However, it is possible to write such a procedure
using Mercury's RTTI support (deconstruct, univ_to_type, etc.).
The source code for io__write is a good example of how to do it.

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