Re: Percent sign in message

[Stefan Monnier]

>>>> 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 <exp>) and <exp> is not a constant string.


        Stefan