From: Damien Kick
Subject: Newbie question: printing floating point
Date: 
Message-ID: <ovhe9ruoa6.fsf@email.mot.com>
From the description of the "~F" directive for 'format'
<http://www.lispworks.com/reference/HyperSpec/Body/22_cca.htm>:

        If both w and d are omitted, then the effect is to print the
        value using ordinary free-format output; prin1 uses this
        format for any number whose magnitude is either zero or
        between 10^-3 (inclusive) and 10^7 (exclusive).

Is there any way to force that a floating point number be printed
without exponential representation without have to specify the width
of the number of decimal points to be used in the representation?