STRING error messages

[Robert W. Kerns <RWK at MIT-MC>]

    Date: 1 December 1980 11:17-EST
    From: John G. Aspinall <JGA at MIT-MC>
    Subject: STRING error messages
    To: BUG-LISP at MIT-MC
    cc: JGA at MIT-MC

    (load '((lisp) string))
    (setq a 'ards)
    (string-append "foo" a)

    ;ARDS ~1G~S does not pass the ~0G~S test, for function ~2G~S ?

    I don't think this is very informative.
    John.
If you load FORMAT you'll get totally winning messages.  However, since some
systems can't tolerate the address space consumed by FORMAT, it isn't loaded by
default.  So as a poor alternate, it just gives you the format string.