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Re: message primitive


"Greg J. Badros" <gjb@cs.washington.edu> writes:

> Also, I'm concerned about scm_display_error & backward compatibility.
> It can't really go thru and s/%/~/g (or even more precise variants)
> since % is a literal in the simple `format' sense.

I actually think it would be a good idea anyway.  It's really, really
ugly to support two different styles of formatting, like we do now,
and, the most suitable point in time to make changes with backward
compatibility problems are "as soon as possible".

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