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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>,
	Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Generalize and standarize dired-plural-s
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 08:12:02 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dc1afba6-53e5-4d60-a5e6-dae363e5404b@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1609182258230.29669@calancha-pc>

> I am wondering if it has sense to add a standard function,
> `string-plural-s', covering both cases: I), II).  Then, we might do
> `dired-plural-s' and alias for the new function.
> We might update all the 'plularizations' in Emacs source code to use
> the new function as well. What do you think about this idea?

I'd like to see `format' extended along the lines of Common Lisp.

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/22_chc.htm



  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-09-18 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-18 14:00 Generalize and standarize dired-plural-s Tino Calancha
2016-09-18 15:06 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-09-18 15:12 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-09-18 17:45 ` Yuri Khan
2016-09-18 19:28   ` Tino Calancha
2016-09-18 20:47     ` Yuri Khan

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