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Re: Printing plural forms.

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From: Nick Rothwell
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 1991 11:40
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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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From: nick@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
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Subject: Re: Printing plural forms.
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Date: 20 Feb 91 11:40:58 GMT
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