Re: Printing QUOTE.

Avishek Gorai via Sbcl-help <[email protected]> Sun, 30 Nov 2025 10:44:49 +0530
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.steel-bank.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
So, how to print-pretty using "(QUOTE ...)" instead of the single quote 
in SBCL?

On 30-11-2025 12:50 am, [email protected] wrote:
>> 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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