On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 01:12:06PM -0800, Kon Lovett wrote: > > On Mar 7, 2008, at 9:08 AM, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > >> >> I'd like to define my own %[...%] sort of formatter using >> format-modular, but it seems to be impossible without copying most >> of the egg into my own code! Could this be added as a general >> feature? > > No quite sure what you mean. Is '%' to be the escape character, > instead of '~'? This is possible but you would need to override > the "*formatter-cond*" to provide new semantics. And all format > codes would need to use '%' as the escape. > > Or are you asking for a user defined multi-character escape+code > sequence that would coexist with the default escape+code > sequences? I suppose this could be done but would require some > surgery.
I don't think I'm asking for either of those, but I'm not sure. I'm asking how to do before-and-after escape sequences, like ~[...~] or ~(...~), but with my own code behind them. -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
