soo wrote:

>  * From: Jens Axel Søgaard <xxxxxx@soegaard.net>
>  * Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:17:32 +0100
>  * Subj: Comments and some bugs
>
> Thank you for your comments.
>
>    - the name OBJECT->STRING is more "Schemy"
>      (it's pretty long though)
> Yes, it's too long.
>
>    - I find the name of the parameter DEPTH in the documentation
>      confusing. (It makes me think in two dimensional output)
> How about 'precision'?

Precision is much better.

>     where a negative number is truncated:
>       > (fmt -1.55555 3 2)
>       "-1.54"
> Yes, it's a bug.
> I've corrected it.

After pasting SRFI 51 into the top and defining EVERY
(called ANDMAP) in DrScheme, I got the following interaction:

 > (fmt -1.55555 3 2)
"-1.56"

 > (fmt -5.0 0 #\space 10 + 'e)
. fmt: exact number cannot have a decimal point
10 depth (and depth (eq? exactness (quote e)))    ; Why not?

 > (fmt -5 0 #\space 10 + 'e)
. fmt: exact number cannot have a decimal point 10 depth (and depth (eq? exactness (quote e)))

 > (fmt 1/2 0 #\space 10 +)
"+0.5000000000"

 > (fmt 1/2)
"1/2"

 > (fmt 1/2 5)
"  1/2"

 > (fmt 1/2 5 0)
"   1."            ; Huh?

 > (fmt -1 10 0)
"       -1."       ; Is this on purpose?

 > (fmt 1/2 5 2)
" 0.50"

 > (fmt 1/2 5 2 10)
. fmt: bad argument (10) (null? (10))  ; strange error messages

 > (fmt 1/2 5 2 #\space 10)
. fmt: bad argument (10) (null? (10))

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Jens Axel Søgaard