Re: Peculiar number formatting?
"Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at cley dot com)" <[email protected]> Tue, 19 May 2026 11:44:19 +0100
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On 19 May 2026, at 11:09, David McClain (as dbm at refined-audiometrics dot com) <[email protected]> wrote: > > I wonder what the Lisp world was thinking when they decided to standardize on this kind of format output?? COBOL era? Probably 'what maclisp did' and maclisp was old. My guess would therefore be 'what early FORTRAN did', which probably means 77 or even 66. It's an antique now, for sure. _______________________________________________ Lisp Hug - the mailing list for LispWorks users [email protected] http://www.lispworks.com/support/lisp-hug.html