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From: Erik Naggum <clerik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: Printer Questions
Date: 1998/03/31
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* David J Cooper Jr
| Is there any way to:
| 
| 1) Stop the printer from prepending "package-name::" to the front of
| symbols, when printing (with pprint or whatever) lists containing
| symbols in packages other than the one you're in when doing the
| printing?

  how do you print symbols now?  PRINT and PRIN1 will print the package,
  but PRINC will not.  FORMAT ~S will include the package, ~A will not.  in
  general, WRITE will include the package name if *PRINT-ESCAPE* is true.

| 2) Tell the printer to print symbol names in lowercase (or uppercase),
| short of resetting the global case-mode with something like Allegro's
| excl:set-case-mode, which has a lot of other undesired side-effects?

  see the variable *PRINT-CASE*.

  I'm running Allegro CL with CASE-SENSITIVE-LOWER (despite writing symbols
  in prose in uppercase, I prefer them lowercase in code), and have not
  seen any of the undesired side-effects, but I also take care to use
  uninterned symbols or keywords where a symbol name is required, not a
  string, which would be case sensitive, and then write all symbols in
  lower-case.  however, I appreciate the possibility of case sensitive
  symbol names.

#:Erik
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