Re: type of list element

jon klein <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.breve
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Nov 6, 2003, at 10:45 PM, Rick Giuly wrote:

> The list is for storing a BNF grammar, sortof. It's a list of list of 
> lists
> and objects, and I want it to print nice. Determing types makes 
> writing a
> general recursive print function possible. If I could define how 
> objects
> 'print', that would work too.

The (undocumented) method "get-description", if it exists in an object,
will be included when the object is printed.  The class name and the
pointer are also included as usual.

> While we're on the subject of printing, is there a command like 
> 'print' that
> prints without a newline at the end?

"printf" does exactly that.

- jon klein

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