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From: nick@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Printing plural forms.
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Date: 20 Feb 91 11:40:58 GMT
References: <1991Feb19.104810.549@ZYX.SE> <2706@kraftbus.cs.tu-berlin.de> <6464@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> <1991Feb20.001242.9592@Think.COM>
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In article <1991Feb20.001242.9592@Think.COM>, barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
> So, one writes:
> 
> (format t "You have ~D dependenc~*:P." n-dep)

Yucko, I think I preferred doing it my way... (he says, being otherwise
quite fond of the huge amounts of chrome adorning C's printf() lib call).

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Nick Rothwell,	Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
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