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Arthur A. Gleckler wrote:
Because it relies on FORMAT, SRFI 29 can't accomodate language ordering variations. In other words, it can't model the fact that one language may require substitutions in a different order than another.
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I would like to recommend changing SRFI 29 to support reordering in a similar manner.
The full Common Lisp format provides re-ordering. So do some Scheme implementations of format, include the one in Slib and the one in Kawa. #|kawa:1|# (format "Here are ~1@*~a and ~0@*~a!" 'jim 'john) Here are john and jim! I suggest that SRFI-28 be extended to support ~N@*. Alternatively, one coudl have SRFI-29 require this extension. -- --Per Bothner per@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.bothner.com/per/