Re: Fixing numerous `message' bugs..

[Richard Stallman]

    I don't particularly like it.  What about (message t nil 7), what is
    that supposed to return?  nil too?

The same as (message nil 7) returns now.
(The value is nil.)

I don't see that this is a problem.

      Anyway, there is little point to
    make this specific to message.  So if at all, we would special-case
    format instead.

I don't see why.  There is no problem or issue with `format'.  The
issue arises with `message' because (message nil) is meaningful.