[Ecls-list] `format': ~C acting the same as ~:C?

[Dave Pearson]

Is it by design that ecl's `format' treats ~C in the way all other CL
implementations seem to treat ~:C?

For example, in all other CL implementations that I've tested with I get the
following behaviour:

,----
| * (format nil "~C" #\Space)
| " "
`----

whereas with ecl I get:

,----
| > (format nil "~C" #\Space)
| "Space"
`----

My reading of the HyperSpec suggests to me that I should expect the former
behaviour, not the latter.

-- 
Dave Pearson
http://www.davep.org/lisp/