webmasterATflymagnetic.com <webmaster@flymagnetic.com> wrote:
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| Frank Buss <f...@frank-buss.de> wrote:
| > I think this could be considered a bug in ABCL, because I
| > would expect that my own print-length settings takes precedence
| > over any internal setting.
| 
| Thanks for this. I tried Tamas' solution and it didn't work, so this
| explains it. But surely not a bug -- I cannot believe someone as green
| behind the ears as I am, as far as Lisp is concerned, has found a bug. ;-)
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Actually, you probably *have* found a bug! Beginners often poke around
in corners where the more experienced seldom go, and are thus more
likely to stumble on things in some specific implementation that no-one
has tried before. Or in this particular case, stumble onto an issue
that a more experienced Lisper would just work around [perhaps with
a (WRITE * :LENGTH NIL)] and move on, without bothering to complain
to anyone.  ;-}

If there is a defined procedure for doing so, please do take the time
to file a bug report with the ABCL maintainers, for the sake of the
*next* generation of beginners...


-Rob

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