From: Barry Margolin
Subject: Re: format question
Date: 
Message-ID: <u0aj8.10$fJ1.176@paloalto-snr1.gtei.net>
In article <···············@osf1.gmu.edu>,
Myriam Abramson  <········@osf1.gmu.edu> wrote:
>
>Hi!
>
>I want to do something like 
>
>(setf symb 'object)
>
>(format nil "~R ~(~A~:P~)" 1 symb)
>
>comes back as "one object". 
>
>It gives me "one objects". 
>
>I can't hardcode symb. 
>
>Looking at CLTL2, I don't see anyway to do what I want and I'm running
>out of time. Any ideas?

(format nil "~R ~A~2:*~P" 1 symb)

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