guile.info: Formatted Output

[Alex Schroeder]

There is a mixme in that node:

    `~f'
          Output the corresponding ARG as a fixed format floating point
          number, such as `1.34'.

    `~e'
          Output the corresponding ARG in exponential notation, such as
          `1.34E+0'.

    `~g'
          %% FIXME::martin: There must be a difference.  Does anybody
          know?  Like `~f'.

In Emacs "format" does the following:

%f means print a number in decimal-point notation.
%g means print a number in exponential notation
  or decimal-point notation, whichever uses fewer characters.

Perhaps Guile does or should do the same.

Alex.
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