Subject: Re: How do you print readably?
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:13:27 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <MdGdnbNulPmaxXPYnZ2dnUVZ_uHinZ2d@speakeasy.net>
Richard M Kreuter  <kreuter@progn.net> wrote:
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| Tim Bradshaw <tfb@tfeb.org> writes:
| > Richard M Kreuter <kreuter@progn.net> said:
| >
| >> So how /do/ you print something readably in PRINT-OBJECT?  The only
| >> approach I can think of is to use sharp-dot, and then only when
| >> *READ-EVAL* is true.
| >
| > I think it would be reasonable to assume that you're allowed to make
| > use of read macros that you've provided. 
| 
| But then how can WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX work, in general?
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It can't. If you insist on using WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX then
there *will* be lots of objects you can't externalize.


-Rob

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