[Openmcl-devel] level-1/l1-boot-2.lisp

[Chris Van Dusen]

Me neither...

My question is where the problem lies when *print-readably* is t, SLIME, CCL, Spec?  

There's much to be said for something being a good thing (despite not being a  Good Idea), and I what would like to understand that aspect rather than the default/standard/special rabbit hole aspect.

Thanks,
Chris.

On Mar 29, 2010, at 6:09 AM, Sudhir Shenoy wrote:

> I am definitely not an expert on CL but ... My reading of the *print-readably* spec is that the default behaviour is the non-special one, i.e., when set to 't', *print-readably* behaves in a special way that ensures what is printed can be read back by the implementation. So, I guess the standard read/print behaviour is one where what is printed can be read back and this is the "special" behaviour when *print-readably* is true.
> 
> My head hurts as well :-)
> 
> On Mar 29, 2010, at 6:23 PM, Gary Byers wrote:
> 
>> And the same spec says that WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX binds *PRINT-READABLY*
>> to T (and that that produces "standard read/print behavior".)  Perhaps that
>> means that "standard behavior" and "default behavior" intentionally differ.
>> 
>> I wouldn't want to have to explain that (just thinking about it is hard
>> enough ...), so it's probably better that threads start up with "default,
>> though perhaps non-standard" values of the reader/printer control variables.
>> 
>> The change was motivated by a desire to keep an assignment to one of those
>> variables in one thread from unexpectedly affecting the value visible in
>> another thread.  That's generally a good thing (even though that kind of
>> assignment isn't generally a Good Idea), but it does mean that setting
>> something (something like *PRINT-PRETTY*) in your init file doesn't have exactly the same (generally benign) effect that it had before the change.
>> 
>> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Sudhir Shenoy wrote:
>> 
>>> In the latest change to l1-boot-2.lisp, shouldn't the value for *print-
>>> readably* be set to nil? SLIME breaks with it set to 't' and according
>>> to the Hyperspec, the default value of *print-readably* is false ...
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> Sudhir
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