Re: Patch for ice-9/format.scm (removes arbitrary ~{...~} iteration limit)

[Kevin Ryde]

Matthias Koeppe <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Kevin, could you commit the patch to CVS then?  I think this should
> go into HEAD and the stable branch.

Done.  Thanks.

> +  (pass-if "format ~F (format-out-substr) maintains the column correctly"
> +        (= (string-length (format "address@hidden" 1)) 20)))

Marius has applied this to the head previously.  You can argue for it
in the 1.6 if it addresses some bug or misfeature.

> +  (pass-if "format ~{ has no arbitrary iteration limit"
> +        (= (string-length (format "~{~a~}" (make-list 200 #\b))) 200)))

Tests exercising the other three iteration forms (~{ modifiers) would
be nice, since the code for those is separate.