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problems with slib 2c0 format in guile


Formatst reports:

    guile> SLIB Common LISP format version 3.0
      (C) copyright 1992-1994 by Dirk Lutzebaeck
      please send bug reports to `lutzeb@cs.tu-berlin.de'
    This implementation has flonums and complex numbers

    *Failed* ("~a" (quote #(1 2 3)))
     returns  "(quote #(1 2 3))"
     expected "#(1 2 3)"
    10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100,/usr/u/chl/Sys/share/guile/site/slib/formatst.scm:219:14: While evaluating arguments to string in expression (string slib:form-feed):
    /usr/u/chl/Sys/share/guile/site/slib/formatst.scm:219:14: Unbound variable: slib:form-feed
    ABORT: (misc-error)
    guile> 

The problem with ~a is rather annoying as there now is no way of doing
unescaped output with format.

The problem happens both with guile version 1.2 and current snapshots
which corresponds to version 1.3a.


Is this a known problem?

I did send a report to Dirk Lutzebaeck as indicated but he replied
that he isn't really actively maintaining format any longer.


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