> > the character succeding the escape tilde.  That violates the idea that
> > the character following the escape is some sort of command identifier.
>
> That is your idea of format.  The more general idea is that between
> the escape and the command character there may be some numeric parameters.
Indeed.

> >I'm not so sure we should be writing this SRFI to be compatible with
> >Common Lisp or Kawa.  No offsense, but if we have the ability to
> >improve, why not?
>
> Offense taken.  While we're not required to be compatible with
> Common Lisp, I think a SRFI should avoid being deliberately incompatible
> with existing Scheme implementations that are seeing active use and
> development, when there is no good reason for the incompatibility.
>
> The Slib and Guile (based on Slib) implementations of format
> also support "~@N*".

Okay, you win.  If its that widespread then its a reasonable addition.

	Scott