Subject: bug#19975: 25.0.50; Add %s-like descriptor to `format' that treats nil like empty string

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 19:10:11 +0200

Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]> writes:

> Drew Adams <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Enhancement request.  Add a new format descriptor to `format' that would
>> behave just like %s except that a nil argument would be treated as if it
>> were "".
>
> It's easy enough to use (or foo "").

Yes, I don't think that we want to clutter up the `format' language with
something as special as this.  Closing.

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