Re: Patch for ice-9/format.scm (~&)

[Rob Browning]

Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:

> Between two calls to format, without a port that maintains a column
> count, it can not work in general.  Should we want it to work when
> the same port is used, and fail mysteriously when the port is
> switched; or should we allow it to fail even when the port stays the
> same from call to call, giving less cryptic behaviour.  I don't
> know.  Is it a important decision?  Beats me as well.  What is
> probably worse is that format is not thread safe, as it is.

I wonder if/how CL handles this...  If I remember, I'll look it up.

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Rob Browning <address@hidden> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930