Re: Fixing numerous `message' bugs..

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Here's an idea: make up an argument to `message' that says treat the
> next argument literally.  How about t?
>
>    (message t STRING) is equivalent to (message "%s" STRING)
>    (message t nil) is equivalent to (message nil)
>
> So in the cases that are buggy it suffices to add t as the first argument.

I don't particularly like it.  What about (message t nil 7), what is
that supposed to return?  nil too?  Anyway, there is little point to
make this specific to message.  So if at all, we would special-case
format instead.  Which means that (stringp (format ...)) is no longer
guaranteed to be true.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum