* Didier Verna <qvqvre@yeqr.rcvgn.se> [2011-01-25 18:05:11 +0100]:
I'm aware of the ~// construct, which I find extremely cumbersome. It seems to me that the package handling part, specifically, makes it totally unusable. exactly.
Does anybody actually use it? yes.
WDYT? Does something like that already exists[2]?
clisp has "~!" http://clisp.sourceforge.net/impnotes/print-formatted.html The additional FORMAT instruction ~! is similar to ~/, but avoids putting a function name into a string, thus, you might not need to specify the package explicitly. (FORMAT stream "~arguments!" function object) is equivalent to (FUNCALL function stream object colon-modifier-p atsign-modifier-p arguments) -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on CentOS release 5.3 (Final) http://camera.org http://ffii.org http://truepeace.org http://dhimmi.com http://honestreporting.com http://memri.org http://jihadwatch.org PI seconds is a nanocentury