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From: dkahn@SCHUBERT.PRODIGY.CS.CMU.EDU (Daniel Kahn)
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Subject: CL format stream question
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Date: 13 Mar 91 02:16:32 GMT
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The format function in CL take a string with a fill pointer and will push the additional characters onto the end of the string.  

Is it an omission from CLtL 2nd addition that the string must also be created
created with an :adjustable t keyword value pair?  If you don't do this then it
isn't clear that the vector-push-extend that format calls will create a new
vector EQ to the one passed in as an argument.  If the result isn't EQ to the old
value then I don't see how you can get your result.

--dan