Hi,

I remember bumping into a library several years ago (must have been
Common Lisp or Schemem, IIRC) which provided a sexp-based DSL for the
job usually performed by the "format string" in things like C's `printf`
or Lisp's `format`. But I can't remember anything like the name of the
library or the name(s?) of its author(s?).

It also came with a nice introduction explaining the rationale for the
design and how it is just so much better than those standard approaches.

Does that ring a bell?


Stefan

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4 An Improved Formatted I/O Facility
from http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/dvm/papers/ytdoc.pdf perhaps ?
Parent page is http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/dvm/index.html .

Thanks. That's not the one I remember (or my memory is really ppor),
but it's going in a similar direction, indeed.
And it's a nice read :-)


Stefan

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On Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:46:53 -0000 (UTC), Spiros Bousbouras wrote:

4 An Improved Formatted I/O Facility
from http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/dvm/papers/ytdoc.pdf perhaps ?
Parent page is http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/dvm/index.html .

Unfortunately, that suffers from the same drawback as C++ I/O streams, in
that you cannot get a format string from localizable resources that can
reorder items to match the grammatical requirements of different
languages.

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