Re: prin1 / princ vs message ?

[Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com>]

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> On Jul 2, 2017, at 22:21, Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Instead of using message to replace that code:
>> 
>> (let ((name "JC"))
>> (prin1 "My name ")
>> (princ " is ")
>> (princ name)
>> (princ ".\n\n"))
>> 
>> It would be better to use something like:
>> 
>> (let ((sentence (format "My name is %s.\n\n)))
>>    (prin1 sentence))
>> 
>> That way I keep the possibility to redirect the output somewhere else while making the sentence actually maintainable...
> That's sounds pretty OK.
> I would just modify a bit your example, because currenty doesn't work,
> you get the error:
> read-from-minibuffer: End of file during parsing

Yes, I just realized that I had forgotten a lot of required stuff :) Sorry.

As for Noam's question, the mixing is, I guess, intended but was not properly reflected in my example:

(let ((name "JC"))
(princ "My name ")
(princ " is ")
(prin1 name)
(princ ".\n\n"))


Jean-Christophe 

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