From: Erik Naggum
Subject: Re: easy plural formatting question
Date: 
Message-ID: <3217091140111702@naggum.net>
* Myriam Abramson <········@osf1.gmu.edu>
| How do I form the plural of "inch" to "inches"?

(dotimes (inches 5)
  (format t "~&~D inch~:*~[es~;~:;es~]" inches))
0 inches
1 inch
2 inches
3 inches
4 inches
  
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