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Recursive printing proposal
- To: "common-lisp" <common-lisp@su-ai.ARPA>
- Subject: Recursive printing proposal
- From: "BACH::ROBBINS" <robbins%bach.decnet@hudson.dec.com>
- Date: 0 0 00:00:00 EST
- Cc: robbins
- Reply-to: "BACH::ROBBINS" <robbins%bach.decnet@hudson.dec.com>
I propose that we add the following macro:
TOP-LEVEL-PRINT &BODY BODY
The macro is responsible for ensuring that any printing within BODY will
be started as a top level print.
This achieves what having RECURSIVE-P arguments to printing functions would
without breaking existing source code and without requiring any changes to
FORMAT.
I think that while we should specify that the printer automatically handles
depth abbreviation, we should not specify how it is to be implemented.
-- Rich
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