Re: Percent sign in message

[David Kastrup]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>     Of course, we could also add a compiler warning whenever we see
>>     (message <exp>) and <exp> is not a constant string.
>
>> I think that would give too many false warnings, because it is not
>> unusual to obtain the format string from some non-constant source.
>
> Could be.  But the warning can be turned off by using (message "%s" <exp>).

That would need to be
(message "%s" (format <exp>))

It is not unusual to obtain a _format_ string from some non-constant
source.

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