From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 19975@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19975: 25.0.50; Add %s-like descriptor to `format' that treats nil like empty string
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2015 23:07:13 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8f839957-d30e-4b42-85bd-3759a09a05ec@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874mq47jlt.fsf@igel.home>
> > Enhancement request. Add a new format descriptor to `format' that would
> > behave just like %s except that a nil argument would be treated as if it
> > were "".
>
> It's easy enough to use (or foo "").
Yes of course "it's easy enough". That's what we've all been
doing for decades. It would be even clearer and simpler still
to have a format descriptor for this common use case.
That is what this enhancement request is about - not needing to
write such "easy enough" code.
And of course it is not always (or foo "").
It might well be (if foo "whatever" ""). Or if you prefer,
(let ((bar "whatever")) (or (and foo bar) "")).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-02 7:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-01 15:32 bug#19975: 25.0.50; Add %s-like descriptor to `format' that treats nil like empty string Drew Adams
2015-03-01 15:37 ` Drew Adams
2015-03-01 16:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-03-02 7:07 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2015-03-02 8:52 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-04-30 17:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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