Re: i18n, gettext support?

[Matthias Koeppe]

Andreas Rottmann <address@hidden> writes:

> A related (to i18n) issue: it would be nice to have positional
> argument support in (ice-9 format); e.g.:
>
> (format #t "address@hidden address@hidden" "World!" "Hello")
>
> would print "Hello World!". I just took @ as a position 'prefix',
> since according to the docs, it is not taken yet. Alternative syntax
> suggestions welcome. 

This is already possible with the address@hidden format directive, see
http://www.lispworks.com/reference/HyperSpec/Body/22_cga.htm 

     (format #t "address@hidden address@hidden address@hidden" "World!" "Hello")

(The final address@hidden is necessary because Guile otherwise complains about
"1 superfluous argument". )

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Matthias Koeppe -- http://www.math.uni-magdeburg.de/~mkoeppe