Re: add printf.scm to ice-9?

[Rob Browning]

Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:

> It is, see Per's post.  However, you need to '(use-modules (ice-9
> format))'.  There is also a builtin simple-format that doesn't have
> these options.

I wish I could remember right now, but I recall needing some %
formatting functionality that sprintf (or was it sscanf) had that
guile didn't seem to provide.  It made me think that it might be nice
to have a more direct interface to the unix function for those that
want it, but I can't recall what the particular missing bit was.

Any reason we wouldn't want to provide a module providing
sprintf/sscanf functionality eventually?

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