bug-apl
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

[Bug-apl] Format by example problems


From: Elias Mårtenson
Subject: [Bug-apl] Format by example problems
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 13:43:35 +0800

I'm trying to coerce ⍕ into doing something that should be trivial. Assume I have a number N, and I want to display it like in a printf using the pattern "value=%d".

I've tried all sorts of variations, but I just can't make it happen. It's all good until I try to pass in a negative value. How can I do this?

Secondly, it seems to me as though this thing is designed with preformatted columnar data in mind. This kind of formatting is increasingly rare these days, so I still feel that a more powerful formatting facility is needed. Something along the lines of the Common Lisp FORMAT function would be nice.

Regards,
Elias

reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]