Re: Reason behind semicolumns (i.e. "inline comments") in system output?

Andreas Franke via Sbcl-help <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.steel-bank.general
Message-ID <trinity-39b836be-f3c5-41db-8502-e68d293e984c-1722872117374@3c-app-gmx-bap48> 
I seem to recall that the motivation for prefixing
arbitrary REPL output with semicolons (";") was to
preserve readability of readably-printed expressions
(or sequences thereof) even if they were "interrupted"
by such messages.

HTH,
Andreas
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