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> > How do you think using `format' function directly instead of `?' ?
> > 
> > e.g.
> > 
> > 	uuencode %s %s > %s.uu
> > 
> > Advantage:
> > - If the user want to `%' itself in the command line, format function
> >   can handle it:
> > 
> >       echo %%s
> > 
> > - Implementation is not so difficult(for us).
> 
> Not?  How do you call the format function?  Depends on the number of
> %s...

Good point.
I found next code works.

    (apply 'format "echo %s" '("a" "a" "a"))
    => "echo a"

So we can pass arguments as much as possible:-P.