From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sean McAfee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Simple stringification Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:36:13 -0800 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1266860574 3065 80.91.229.12 (22 Feb 2010 17:42:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:42:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 22 18:42:51 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NjcIy-0004ob-QC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:42:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43922 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NjcIy-000796-An for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:42:48 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:38:24 -0600 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ydEdsl+CwcIvBiLYm4vznVAQVnA= Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Trace: sv3-H7obj3yKDWbVNiTiqHN2nd5jtn4m/pQw34Mo29W/6vtJKwoyWFLdHkNlpcncNR1Q11RJHqMCGHhT0bs!YzET1TeQAOJFlp9OYsGSRe41mCEzVeEODJ2H4j+kpkU5q5M4yMDBD5lKNbUHf7wfv1U= Original-X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:176984 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72025 Archived-At: I recently needed a function that stringifies its argument. I wrote my own: (defun stringify (arg) (format "%s" arg)) But then I thought that Emacs probably ought to offer a standalone function for this. I can't find one, though. The docs for the format function state that the "%s" format sequence uses princ to print any object. However, (princ my-object) also prints the stringification of my-object to the echo area, unless called with an additional argument, eg. (princ my-object 'identity). Is there in fact a function that stringifies its single argument, and does nothing else?