"Pascal J. Bourguignon" <[email protected]> wrote: > \ is already meaningful in strings, to escape \ or ". So you'd have to > use ~\\e\\.
Yeah bad example. It just popped up in my mind as the opposite of ~\\. Make that ~!! or whatever. > The standard already allows control-strings to be functions. So you > could write a cl:formatter-like macro with any extension you like. > There's no need for any extension, just use CL. I never said I needed a real extension. I can provide a library with an alternate (extended ;-) format function. My point was rather to share the idea of format-tables, which you don't seem to like, whatever the way they would be implemented. -- Resistance is futile. You will be jazzimilated. Scientific site: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier Music (Jazz) site: http://www.didierverna.com _______________________________________________ pro mailing list [email protected] http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pro
