Re: [Chicken-users] Using fmt and numbers eggs together

[John Cowan]

Sudarshan S Chawathe scripsit:

> When not using the numbers egg, fmt's behavior seems to be as expected
> (given Chicken's implementation of numbers without the 'numbers' egg).

Since the fmt egg is compiled without the numbers egg, it only recognizes
native Chicken numbers, i.e. fixnums and flonums.  The way to fix that
is to fetch the fmt egg, introduce "(use numbers)" into the appropriate
places, and rebuild the egg locally.

> Is this a known limitation of fmt with 'numbers'?

It's a limitation of the numbers egg: programs (other than csi itself)
have to be compiled with it to work with it.  Chicken 5 will make
this go away, fortunately.

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