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    Fmx-cw

    (fmx-cw str &rest args) => state

    Fmx-cw is a variant of cw: both take the same arguments and have the same behavior on well-formed input, and both return nil. See cw for documentation on how to use both utilities. Unlike cw, fmx-cw is well-guarded, so it can catch errors in the use of tilde-directives. Here is an example of such a guard violation.

    ACL2 !>(fmx-cw "Hello ~s0." '(world))
    
    
    ACL2 Error in TOP-LEVEL:  Guard violation for FMX-CW-FN:
    Illegal Fmt Syntax.  The tilde-s directive at position 6 of the string
    below is illegal because its variable evaluated to (WORLD), which is
    not a symbol, a string, or a number.
    
    "Hello ~s0."
    
    ACL2 !>

    Thus, call fmx-cw instead of cw in the body of :logic mode definition when you want its guard verification to avoid runtime errors from that call. (While the guard on fmx-cw is likely complete in practice, this is not an ironclad guarantee. Perhaps, some day, all formatted printing code will be fully guarded and guard-verified.) Note that if you call fmx-cw in a definition, the guard proof may benefit from the lemma, fmx-cw-msg-1-opener, found in community-book books/system/fmx-cw.lisp.

    The variant fmx!-cw avoids the insertion of backslash () characters when forced to print past the right margin. Thus, use fmx!-cw instead of fmx-cw if you want the output to be machine-readable.