To run this program, save it as string-formatting.rkt and use the racket command:
This Racket program demonstrates various string formatting techniques, similar to the original Go example. It uses Racket’s printf function, which is similar to Go’s fmt.Printf. The format specifiers are slightly different:
~a is used for general formatting (similar to %v in Go)
~s is used for Racket syntax representation (similar to %#v in Go)
~v is used for detailed structure printing (similar to %+v in Go)
~f is used for float formatting
~e is used for scientific notation
~x is used for hexadecimal formatting
~b is used for binary formatting
Racket doesn’t have a built-in way to print type information like Go’s %T, so we use object-name on a struct field instead.
The program also demonstrates width and precision control, left-justification, and using different output ports (like current-error-port, which is similar to os.Stderr in Go).
Note that Racket doesn’t have a direct equivalent to Go’s pointers, so we use eq-hash-code to get a unique identifier for an object, which serves a similar purpose in this context.