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Re: message primitive

To: mstachow at alum dot mit dot edu
Subject: Re: message primitive
From: Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj at mdj dot nada dot kth dot se>
Date: 09 Jan 2000 10:13:51 +0100
Cc: "Greg J. Badros" <gjb at cs dot washington dot edu>, guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
Cc: djurfeldt at nada dot kth dot se
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mstachow@alum.mit.edu writes:

> Perhaps we should provide one (perhaps called simple-format or
> something). I don't think exposing that specific bit of C code is
> worthwhile.

Why not?  If we decide that we want this feature, what is wrong with
avoiding redundance and factor out the "%s" expansion and publishing
it as a Scheme procedure?

It, sort of, feels nicer that any one functionality is only
implemented at one place...

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