Re: Peculiar number formatting?
"Pascal Bourguignon (as informatimago at gmail dot com)" <[email protected]> Thu, 21 May 2026 08:03:23 +0200
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> By contrast, in Lisp > > (format nil “~5,’0d” -15) => “00-15” which looks totally weird to me. It’s less weird if you consider that you can use any filler character you want, not just 0. ~5,’#d -> ##-15 Would -##15 be better? Granted a flag Sivan - : to indicate what option to use would be great. But : is already taken to group digits and @ to always print the sign. The other ASCII characters are taken for format specifiers. Hence the use of ~/. -- __Bourguignon__ _______________________________________________ Lisp Hug - the mailing list for LispWorks users [email protected] http://www.lispworks.com/support/lisp-hug.html