From: Matthias Koeppe <mkoeppe@mail.math.uni-magdeburg.de>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: i18n, gettext support?
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:24:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uw5brh9n5xt.fsf@merkur.math.uni-magdeburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vffh7su9.fsf@ivanova.rotty.yi.org> (Andreas Rottmann's message of "Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:16:30 +0200")
Andreas Rottmann <a.rottmann@gmx.at> writes:
> A related (to i18n) issue: it would be nice to have positional
> argument support in (ice-9 format); e.g.:
>
> (format #t "~@2A ~@1A" "World!" "Hello")
>
> would print "Hello World!". I just took @ as a position 'prefix',
> since according to the docs, it is not taken yet. Alternative syntax
> suggestions welcome.
This is already possible with the ~@* format directive, see
http://www.lispworks.com/reference/HyperSpec/Body/22_cga.htm
(format #t "~1@*~A ~0@*~A ~2@*" "World!" "Hello")
(The final ~2@* is necessary because Guile otherwise complains about
"1 superfluous argument". )
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-17 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-16 8:21 i18n, gettext support? Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2004-08-16 18:47 ` Rob Browning
2004-08-17 1:49 ` Kevin Ryde
2004-08-18 14:40 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2004-08-17 14:16 ` Andreas Rottmann
2004-08-17 15:24 ` Matthias Koeppe [this message]
2004-08-18 12:54 ` Andreas Rottmann
2004-08-19 1:10 ` Kevin Ryde
2004-08-19 8:07 ` Matthias Koeppe
2004-08-20 1:17 ` Kevin Ryde
2004-08-24 17:12 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-09-01 23:31 ` Kevin Ryde
2004-08-17 22:46 ` Kevin Ryde
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