Can someone explain the logic of FORMAT's ~G directive?

From: Peter Seibel (peter_at_javamonkey.com)
Date: 11/26/04 

Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 23:15:52 GMT

In particular I'm confused by why the exponent is translated into
padding on the right? Why would anyone want that particular
formatting?

-Peter 

-- 
Peter Seibel                                      peter@javamonkey.com
         Lisp is the red pill. -- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp

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