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Re: `unreadablep'


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: `unreadablep'
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 09:12:16 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> Do we have any primitive that can be used to check whether an object is
> printable or not?  Code like this (from savehist.el) makes me believe
> "not":

IIRC we discussed such a feature but it never got installed.

My memory suggests the plan was to add something like
a `print-unreadable-function` that gets called with the offending
object.  It could then print it any which way it wants, or signal an
error or ...


        Stefan




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