Re: [Maxima-discuss] reworking printf, was: maxima: printf hangs with format string, works in lisp mode

[Andreas E. <and...@gm...>]

On Sa 17 Mai 2025 at 12:26, Robert Dodier <rob...@gm...> wrote:

> Maxima's printf has a lot of great things going for it, mostly
> inherited from Common Lisp FORMAT.
>
> As wonderful as it is, FORMAT doesn't provide a way to define new
> format directives or redefine existing ones.

Well, that is not really true. With the ~/name/ format control you can call user defined formats.
Look at https://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/22_ced.htm

I think we could do all the maxima formats this way ond do away with the convoluted way printing is done
at the moment.

'Andreas

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