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From: shap@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Re: nulls in strings passed to format
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Date: 30 Sep 88 20:06:02 GMT
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Reply-To: shap@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro)
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If you will forgive me for interjecting an *opinion*, it seems to me
that relying on an aspect of the behavior of FORMAT that is
implementation-specific is at best a risky proposition.  To the best
of my knowledge, LISPs in general don't do anything special about
NUL's, and in my opinion it would be a mistake to encourage EMACS-LISP
to commit in this direction.

In fact, I consider this aspect of the behavior of FORMAT to be a
*bug*.  It is not, however, a bug that I worry about - i.e. I don't
care if it ggets fixed or not.

Jon