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6.4 Common Lisp Formatting

format produces three kinds of formatting:

1. printing tables of data as text not used much anymore
2. pretty-printing s-expressions

   a customizable system for printing block-structured data such as–but not limited to–s-expressions while varying indentation and dynamically adding line breaks as needed.

3. generating human-readable messages with interpolated values

• format Function
• format Directives
• Basic Formatting
• Controlled Formatting