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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Named parameters to format?
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:20:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87io3zbuwh.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87egeo9iq3.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:14:28 +0100")

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> ‘format’ is an implementation of the historical Common Lisp (I think?)
> thing.
>
> The Better Approach™ is probably <http://synthcode.com/scheme/fmt>.  An
> entirely different but IMO nicer approach (again, real EDSL instead of
> stringy DSL.)

For some time now, I've been thinking that we should consider adopting
<http://synthcode.com/scheme/fmt> as a replacement for 'format', but it
seems to lack any reasonable way to accomplish what Chris is asking for.

Thoughts?

      Mark



  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-15 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-15  4:52 Named parameters to format? Christopher Allan Webber
2015-12-15  6:01 ` Nala Ginrut
2015-12-15 15:43   ` Christopher Allan Webber
2015-12-15  6:30 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-12-15  9:14   ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-15 15:20     ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2015-12-15 15:42     ` Christopher Allan Webber
2015-12-15 16:16       ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-15 15:43   ` Christopher Allan Webber

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