Re: i18n, gettext support?

[Andreas Rottmann]

Matthias Koeppe <address@hidden> writes:

> 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". )
>
Thanks for pointing this out (I've misread the documentation). Maybe
the "superfluous argument" error should be disabled when you use @*?

Andi
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