[slime-devel] Re: CLISP support broken in CVS

[Helmut Eller]

Christophe Rhodes <csr21 at cam.ac.uk> writes:

>> I think this control string is legal and CLISP is broken.
>
> It's not, and clisp is quite right, though its error message is
> somewhat poor.  In SBCL:
>
> * (format nil "~:,,' ,8B" 1)
>
> debugger invoked on a SB-FORMAT:FORMAT-ERROR in thread 3429:
>   error in FORMAT: parameters found after #\: or #\@ modifier
>   ~:,,' ,8B
>     ^
> See also:
>   The ANSI Standard, Section 22.3

I see.  Had to read it twice before I got it.

Thanks.

Helmut.