Re: Problem with SBCL pprint

Richard M Kreuter via Sbcl-help <[email protected]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:38:42 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.steel-bank.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Richard M Kreuter writes:
> So the original point of variable binding rules could not have had to do
> with pretty printing.

This was an editing mistake. "...could not have had to do with pretty
printer functions."

(The printer control variable requirements & prohibitions rules have to
do with pretty printing in that no FORMAT directive is allowed to rebind
*PRINT-PRETTY* except as specified. I believe only ~W does.)