From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Percent sign in message Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:07:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200609110657.k8B6vTHW021987@ushabti.sfbay.sun.com> <85mz96c1m9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1157983740 26828 80.91.229.2 (11 Sep 2006 14:09:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:09:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Whitfield Diffie , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Micha=EBl?= Cadilhac , emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 11 16:08:56 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GMmSP-0004oY-1J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:08:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GMmSO-00048b-HL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:08:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GMmS8-00047o-QN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:08:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GMmS7-00047C-5i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:08:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GMmS7-000479-01 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:07:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.110] (helo=tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GMmTM-0007bq-L2; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:09:16 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([70.55.143.66]) by tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20060911140756.ZYZR19825.tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net@localhost>; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:07:56 -0400 Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 203716C1C7; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:07:56 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-Reply-To: (Kim F. Storm's message of "Mon\, 11 Sep 2006 10\:26\:15 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:59677 Archived-At: >>>> Why don't you use (message "%s" whatever)? >> Well, we have had enough "idiots" asking this question by now that it >> would not seem amiss to mention this idiom in DOC-string and/or Elisp >> manual entry. It does not seem immediately obvious. Of course, we could also add a compiler warning whenever we see (message ) and is not a constant string. Stefan