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Subject: Re: spreading a format string across lines
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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 17:48:17 GMT
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* Dorai Sitaram
| What do you think 
| 
| (format t "This is just ~ 
|            one line.~%")
| 
| should return?  

  It should not return, it should signal an error because the final space
  is not defined as a format control.  This is no different from 

(format t "This is just ~ one line.~%")

  Trailing whitespace within strings is not invisible to the Lisp reader.

///
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