Subject: More on how to print complicated objects...
From: Richard Fateman
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 07:50:27 -0700
On 5/18/2012 7:43 AM, Robert Dodier wrote:
> On 2012-05-18, Rupert Swarbrick<rswarbrick at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Am I right in thinking that grind() is conceptually equivalent to print
>> in Lisp with *print-readably* true,
yes
>> and that the usual display is more
>> similar to princ?
not really. The display programs (there are several, in various front
ends and in the core system)
are mostly like a typesetting system, e.g. writing TeX, processing it
into PostScript, and previewing it.
Except that all the pieces are done in one burst.