Pascal Bourguignon  <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
+---------------
| Kent M Pitman <pitman@nhplace.com> writes:
| > So if you do:
| >   (defun spaces (n) (format nil "~V{ ~}" n '(IGNORED)))
| > you'll get what you want if you want to use FORMAT.
| > ...  not that I'd advocate FORMAT.  ...
| 
| It seems to me that:
|     (format t "~V,,,VA" width fill "")
| is more readable and better: it gives format an opportunity to do it
| more efficiently.
+---------------

Indeed. But Kent's method raises another interesting possibility,
for when the thing you want to repeat multiple times isn't a
single character:

    > (loop for i below 4 do
        (format t "I'm so~V{ ~A~:*~} happy!~%" i '("very")))
    I'm so happy!
    I'm so very happy!
    I'm so very very happy!
    I'm so very very very happy!
    NIL
    > 


-Rob

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