Re: Printing QUOTE.

> On Sat, Nov 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM Stas Boukarev <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  In SBCL, (write ''foo :pretty nil)
>  That doesn't work everywhere.
>
>  On Sat, Nov 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM Avishek Gorai via Sbcl-help
>  <[email protected]> wrote:
>  >
>  > How to print "(QUOTE FOO)" instead of "'FOO"?
>  >

Or,

(let ((*print-pretty* nil))
  (print ''foo))
;;=> (QUOTE FOO)
;;=> 'FOO

*print-pretty*
;;=> T
(print ''foo)
;;=> 'FOO
;;=> 'FOO

See:

  http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/doc/CommonLISP/HyperSpec/Body/fun_writecm_p_rintcm_princ.html
  http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/doc/CommonLISP/HyperSpec/Body/var_stprint-prettyst.html

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