> > the character succeding the escape tilde. That violates the idea that > > the character following the escape is some sort of command identifier. > > That is your idea of format. The more general idea is that between > the escape and the command character there may be some numeric parameters. Indeed. > >I'm not so sure we should be writing this SRFI to be compatible with > >Common Lisp or Kawa. No offsense, but if we have the ability to > >improve, why not? > > Offense taken. While we're not required to be compatible with > Common Lisp, I think a SRFI should avoid being deliberately incompatible > with existing Scheme implementations that are seeing active use and > development, when there is no good reason for the incompatibility. > > The Slib and Guile (based on Slib) implementations of format > also support "~@N*". Okay, you win. If its that widespread then its a reasonable addition. Scott
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