From: Peter G. <pe...@ar...> - 2004-08-03 17:50:17
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On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 at 12:25:04 -0400, Sam Steingold wrote: > I suggest that the primitive FORMAT is removed in favor of > (require 'format). > people who are content with basic FORMAT operations are likely to use > PRINC anyway. There's still some system-level code that uses the primitive FORMAT. I've gradually been replacing those calls with calls to SYS::%FORMAT (which is the underlying Java primitive), and at some point FORMAT can probably become a true autoload (at which point things should work just right, from that point of view). I'll probably do this when I get back to working on ANSI compliance; there are similar issues with the pretty printer. -Peter |