Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!dont-send-mail-to-path-lines From: Alan@lcs.mit.EDU (Alan Bawden) Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme Subject: format [topics from hell, part 1] Message-ID: <9104191725.AA23408@august> Date: 19 Apr 91 17:25:44 GMT References: <22449@yunexus.YorkU.CA> Sender: alan@ai.mit.edu Organization: The Internet Lines: 9 Date: 18 Apr 91 16:29:33 GMT From: Ozan Yigit ... Producing a wrapper around to get the "extended" functionality of the former is, of course, trivial.... Unless you have format operators that use the state of the output port. Consider the Common Lisp format operator "~&", which outputs a newline unless the stream is already at the start of a line.