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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions and answers) for SLIB Scheme Library (slib3a1). +FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions and answers) for SLIB Scheme Library (slib3a2). Written by Aubrey Jaffer (http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer). INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INFORMATION @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Several times a year. [] What is the latest version? -The version as of this writing is slib3a1. The latest documentation +The version as of this writing is slib3a2. The latest documentation is available online at: http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/SLIB.html @@ -130,17 +130,6 @@ I find that I only type require statements at top level when debugging. I put require statements in my Scheme files so that the appropriate modules are loaded automatically. -[] What happened to FORMAT? - -In order for FORMAT to call itself for FORMAT error messages, the -original author made its code non-reentrant. For that reason and the -reasons below, FORMAT was removed; I saw little evidence of anyone -using it. - -If someone fixes FORMAT, I will put it back into SLIB. The last -versions of FORMAT are in "format.scm", "formatst.scm", and -"fmtdoc.txi" in http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/OLD/slib2d5.zip - [] Why does SLIB have PRINTF when it already has the more powerful (CommonLisp) FORMAT? @@ -162,19 +151,12 @@ again, printf gets it right: (printf "%.20s\n" "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog") ==> the quick brown fox -FORMAT also lacks directives for formatting date and time. printf -does not handle these directly, but a related function strftime does. - [] Why doesn't SLIB:ERROR call FORMAT? Format does not provide a method to truncate fields. When an error message contains non-terminating or large expressions, the essential information of the message may be lost in the ensuing deluge. -FORMAT as currently written in SLIB is not reentrant. Until this is -fixed, exception handlers and errors which might occur while using -FORMAT cannot use it. - MACROS [] Why are there so many macro implementations in SLIB? |