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 More options Mar 29 2000, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: Tom Breton <t...@world.std.com>
Date: 2000/03/29
Subject: Re: loop, was: Re: can lisp do what perl does easily?
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David Hanley <d...@ncgr.org> writes:
> "Andrew K. Wolven" wrote:

> > Tom Breton wrote:

> > > Now here's something I hope Lisp doesn't acquire.  Too often, eg with
> > > format strings, file paths, the loop facility, Lisp has forgotten its
> > > own elegance and grabbed at some byzantine, syntax-heavy notation just
> > > because other languages used it.

> > True, format string suck.  (sheesh, might as well use shtml or something)
> > File paths seem to be an endless pain in the ass.
> > But loop is cool.  I have gotten work done with it.

> Actually, I've considered writing a format-string generating macro, with
> the idea of looking something like the following:

> (format nil (format-string "employee " STRING " makes " (MONEY (places 6 2))
> "per year")
>    emp-name emp-salary)
> => "employee jeff makes $50,000.00 per year"

For my rtest package, whose formatting functions had to work for both
Common Lisp and Elisp, I just used the argument names directly, rather
than positionally.  Since there was no case where I tried to use the
same format string on many instances of data, it worked out easily.

--
Tom Breton, http://world.std.com/~tob
Not using "gh" since 1997. http://world.std.com/~tob/ugh-free.html
Rethink some Lisp features, http://world.std.com/~tob/rethink-lisp/index.html


 
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