Sounds good to me. 

On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 4:58 PM Arthur A. Gleckler <xxxxxx@speechcode.com> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 1:17 PM John Cowan <xxxxxx@ccil.org> wrote:
 
2) There is no formatter to force exponential notation output corresponding to ~E in Common Lisp, %e/%E in C, and Fortran D, E, and F.  I suggest numeric/float.  The following 4 additional parameters would be needed:

How about numeric/exponential?  Just "float" doesn't convey that exponential notation will be used.