[armedbear-devel] RfC: Renaming LispObject.writeToString() to LispObject.printObject()

[Erik Huelsmann]

Yesterday, we fixed #154 -- the PRINT-OBJECT regression in 0.26.0. Once
again, it turns out that our object printing and stringification routines
are confusingly named. Additionally, they are also under documented: The
writeToString() method calls toString(), but doesn't document the difference
between the two.

My idea would be to disambiguate the two functions by making writeToString()
a java-side PRINT-OBJECT, renaming it to printObject() and documenting
that's what it does. Then, probably, the lisp side function %write-to-string
should be renamed to %print-object too. Probably, more adjustments are
required throughout the code base, but those are probably at the
'implementation detail' level.

So, what's your take on it?


Bye,

Erik.
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