From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark H Weaver Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Named parameters to format? Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:20:46 -0500 Message-ID: <87io3zbuwh.fsf@netris.org> References: <87egeo5mzl.fsf@dustycloud.org> <87r3iob4vi.fsf@netris.org> <87egeo9iq3.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450192877 5665 80.91.229.3 (15 Dec 2015 15:21:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 15:21:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 15 16:21:11 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a8rPZ-0008G8-QG for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 16:21:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37471 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8rPZ-0007Wf-3v for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:21:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47740) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8rPN-0007WH-UP for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:21:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8rPJ-0002pB-V3 for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:20:57 -0500 Original-Received: from world.peace.net ([50.252.239.5]:57833) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8rPJ-0002p2-RV; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:20:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [10.1.10.78] (helo=jojen) by world.peace.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1a8rPD-0001Tf-4m; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:20:47 -0500 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") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 50.252.239.5 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:12253 Archived-At: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes: > =E2=80=98format=E2=80=99 is an implementation of the historical Common Li= sp (I think?) > thing. > > The Better Approach=E2=84=A2 is probably . 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 as a replacement for 'format', but it seems to lack any reasonable way to accomplish what Chris is asking for. Thoughts? Mark