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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
- Subject: Re: Beware of print-object methods when debugging
- Date: 22 Jul 1992 16:15:15 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- In article <mlg.711741357@volvo> mlg@siemens.com. (Michael Greenberg) writes:
- >It turns out the problem was that his print-object method for the
- >class 'foo' sometimes printed 'NIL'.
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- Hmm, perhaps there should be a global *PRINT-OBJECTS* variable that governs
- whether PRINT-OBJECT is called. It should default to T, but if it were NIL
- then the standard #<...> notation would be used for CLOS objects.
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