> On Jul 2, 2017, at 22:21, Tino Calancha 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