Re: `unreadablep'

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> It isn't the fastest as it is, but that's besides the point: avoiding a
> completely optional call into Lisp because it "might be slow" is a
> textbook case of putting the horse before the dog, so to speak.

Well, we're discussing several different ways to implement basically the
same functionality.  If one's slower than the other, that's an issue.

But I think your idea is good -- a way to customise the printing of
unprintable objects could be useful in general, and not just to
implement `readablep'.

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