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  • friedrichRiemann@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Do experienced CL users recommend against using this style and library? Since it’s familiar for C-family programmers.

    • arthurno1@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I don’t know. I found it yesterday by a chance; was looking for Invistra, but couldn’t remember the name; searched on “Common Lisp format library” and that one popped up too. Took like just few minutes to understand it and adapt it, so that is where I see the value.

      The biggest problem with it seems to be it does not support string escapes, like a new line; at least not for me; perhaps I don’t understand it yet; will look at that later.

      I also have no idea how it compares performance-wise with real printf via FFI; I am not sure if that really matters though.