Subject: Re: newbie ques. From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net> Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 21:42:39 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3229710159077161@naggum.net> * "A.Z." <homdi62765@aol.com> | i am real sorry if this seems like a trivial question .. But I have a | project due tomorrow and i can't figure out what is wrong. I am doing a | program that differentiates a mathematical equation. the algorithm seems | to work fine but I have a problem when the list is a little long : I get | answers including a pound sign # some friends told me it was something | generated by the interpreter but couldnt fix it... so I was wondering if | anybody has any ideas When this happens in the read-eval-print-loop (or listener) that you are using, one easy way to get the whole result is to type this immediately after you have received the answer: (pprint *) I think it is a feature of the listener to abbreviate returned values. Please note that this has very little or nothing to do with *print-level* or *print-length*. Those variables control the output of your own calls to print (or pprint). The print of the listener should not use them, but should have its own set of such printer control variables. -- In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief. 70 percent of American adults do not understand the scientific process.