[Chicken-users] Using Fortmat

[William Ramsay]

Actually, this brings us another question.   Is it more efficient
to do something like what you have below than to add an egg?   By
efficient, I mean both in speed and program size?   I have it my
head that I am better off keeping to the routines in the language 
rather than adding an egg.  The code below does the one thing I
need.  Obviously I use eggs where the task is larger or impossible
without.

Bill


Of course, there's also the poor man's string padding, using srfi-13:

(define (number-pad num len)
 (let ((str (number->string num)))
   (if (>= (string-length str) len)
       str
       (string-pad str len #\0))))


Tobia