[Ecls-list] String printing error?

[Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll]

Julian Stecklina wrote:

> <>On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 16:40:00 +0100
> Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <lisp at arrakis.es> wrote:
>
>> > (setf *A* '(#\a #\b #\c #\Return #\d #\e))
>>(#\a #\b #\c #\Return #\d #\e)
>> > (coerce *A* 'string)
>>de"c
>>
>Confusing...
>
Well, characters are sent in raw format to the output stream. Nothing is 
done to escape the character #\Return. Hence, your terminal first prints 
#\", #\a, #\b, #\c and then returns to the beginning of the line because 
of the #\Return, and continues printing: #\d, #\e, #\".

What I wonder is why you got the #\Return in the first place. Maybe you 
are connecting to a Mac?

It seems there should be a way to tell ECL different newline-character 
conventions for different streams...

Juanjo