Re: [Chicken-users] Wrapping C's printf

[felix winkelmann]

On 10/31/07, Ozzi <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'd like to wrap C's printf so that I can do something like this:
>
> (c-printf "The %s of %d and %d is %d" "sum" 1 1 2)
>
> Which would print "The sum of 1 and 1 is 2."
>

As Z. pointed out, the "$" macro can do this to some extent,
but it's a bit ugly. A pure Scheme implementation that (IIRC)
comes relatively close to C's printf is part of slib:

http://trac.callcc.org/browser/slib/printf.scm


cheers,
felix