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Readtables and prin1
- To: Timothy.Freeman@THEORY.CS.CMU.EDU
- Subject: Readtables and prin1
- From: "Scott E. Fahlman" <Fahlman@C.CS.CMU.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1986 01:07:00 -0000
- Cc: common-lisp@SU-AI.ARPA
- In-reply-to: Msg of 17 Sep 1986 13:40-EDT from Timothy.Freeman at theory.cs.cmu.edu
- Sender: FAHLMAN@C.CS.CMU.EDU
I think that the usual practice is to print things out so that they can
be read in using the standard readtable. It would be VERY difficult to
write code that can print out text for any user-modified readtable,
especially if the read-table contains macros.
-- Scott