2 The Format Module

2.1 Introduction

This chapter describes the Format module. The Format module is exported from the IO library. This module extends the functionality of the format strings described in Dylan's condition system and provides two new functions for processing the extended format strings. The Format module is a small module, but it uses the printing modules and some of the Streams module. Chapter 4, "The Printing Modules" and Chapter 5, "The Streams Module" give full details of the Print and Streams libraries.

The format module exports all the identifiers described in this chapter.