Noah Lavine <noah.b.lav...@gmail.com> writes: > It seems clear that in this case, Guile "should" know how to dispatch > on the format string just once, outside of the loop, instead of doing > it in every iteration. What do people think of declaring format as a > macro? That wouldn't help instances of format that have a variable > format string, but I bet that's a lot less common than this case.
Makes sense to me, though I'm not quite sure how that plays with (ice-9 format)'s side-effecting of the existing format binding. Though it was meant as a toy, I wrote https://gist.github.com/3167775 ages ago, along similar lines to this. -- Ian Price -- shift-reset.com "Programming is like pinball. The reward for doing it well is the opportunity to do it again" - from "The Wizardy Compiled"
