Re: [pro] User defined format functions

"Pascal J. Bourguignon" pjb@informatimago.com wrote:

\ is already meaningful in strings, to escape \ or ". So you'd have to use ~\e\.

Yeah bad example. It just popped up in my mind as the opposite of ~\. Make that ~!! or whatever.

The standard already allows control-strings to be functions. So you could write a cl:formatter-like macro with any extension you like. There's no need for any extension, just use CL.

I never said I needed a real extension. I can provide a library with an alternate (extended ;-) format function. My point was rather to share the idea of format-tables, which you don't seem to like, whatever the way they would be implemented.