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Re: prin1 / princ vs message ?


From: Jean-Christophe Helary
Subject: Re: prin1 / princ vs message ?
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2017 22:09:38 +0900

Tony, Noam,

Thank you very much for the clarifications.

So, since I expect the developer to know the difference between the prin? 
collection and message could you tell me if the following is correct:

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...

Jean-Christophe

> On Jul 2, 2017, at 21:45, Noam Postavsky <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 8:21 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> I am asking that because I am seeing code where standard-output is not set
>> to anything but it's default (the echo area) and still prin1/princ are
>> preferred over message. So, why would a developer chose prin1/princ over
>> message when there is no stream argument (hence, when the output goes to
>> standard output).
> 
> Using prin1/princ lets the caller let-bind standard-output to redirect
> the output elsewhere, using message would not allow this.
> 
> Otherwise, I think the only practical difference is that prin1/princ
> to the echo area doesn't support message coalescing, e.g.,
> (progn (message "foo") (message "foo")) will show "foo [2 times]" in
> *Messages*, whereas (progn (princ "foo") (princ "foo")) will show
> "foofoo".




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