Subject: Re: hoots n hollers with c2lisp
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 20:17:04 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <1OmdncRns7C9n1benZ2dnUVZ_tOdnZ2d@speakeasy.net>
John Thingstad <john.thingstad@chello.no> wrote:
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| > This has cropped up before. I belive Garath McCaughan wrote the readmacro
| > fixes and I wrote a crude dispatcher for printf.
...
| As luck would have it I have a improved version on my file system ...
| CL-USER 4 >  (format t (printf->format #S"int=%10d\tfloat=%10.3f\n") 2  
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This is really cool! But... I'd hate to lose the ANSI standard
structure-reader readmacro, as in #S(FOO :A 1 :B 2 :C 3).
Is there any reason a naked #" isn't better as the community's
default read-as-C-string readmacro?


-Rob

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