11 Jan
2005
11 Jan
'05
12:12 a.m.
Raymond Wiker replied:
Lynn Quam writes:
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It would be nice if there was some better control of the printing of arrays. *PRINT-ARRAY* allow for arrays to always be printed or never be printed. What would be useful is a variable *PRINT-ARRAY-SIZE* that says to print arrays whose number of elements is less than or equal to *PRINT-ARRAY-SIZE* and *PRINT-ARRAY* in non-NIL. (I seem to recall that the Lisp Machines had such a variable, but I cannot recall its exact name.)
Can't *print-length* be used?
Neither CMUCL nor Allegro use *PRINT-LENGTH* to control the number of elements printed for an array. Furthermore, the Common Lisp HyperSpec says nothing about arrays in its description of *PRINT-LENGTH*.