* 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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