Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!labrea!russell!gandalf From: gandalf@russell.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox Subject: Re: PRINTNUM Message-ID: <891@russell.STANFORD.EDU> Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 00:44:40 EST Article-I.D.: russell.891 Posted: Thu Dec 3 00:44:40 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 7-Dec-87 05:35:27 EST References: <12355356807.77.SULLIVAN@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU> Reply-To: gandalf@russell.stanford.edu (Juergen Wagner) Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U. Lines: 16 Sorry, I reckon you will get a zillion of responses. I assume, you did that example last night (morning) after 24 hours work. Of course, you get (PRINTNUM '(FLOAT 7 2 () () 1) 27.689) ==> 30.0027.689 Try (PROGN (PRINTNUM '(FLOAT 7 2 () () 1) 27.689) (TERPRI)) You will get ==> 30.00 NIL The 27.689 are just the result of your function call (it is supposed to return a value. The value is your number. Sorry, I couldn't resist. --Juergen Wagner (gandalf@Russell.Stanford.edu)