[pro] conditioning on *print-readably*
Tamas K Papp
tkpapp at gmail.com
Tue Jun 7 15:25:15 UTC 2011
Hi,
I am working with some structures that have quite a few elements but for
most of the time are easier to interpret using a one-line summary.
I would like to achieve the following: when *print-readably*, have the
structure printed the usual way, eg #S(...). Otherwise use my custom
unreadable summary. Eg (simplified example code):
(defstruct foo
a b)
(defmethod print-object ((foo foo) stream)
(if *print-readably*
(...what-to-do-here?...) ; ??
(print-unreadable-object (foo stream :type t)
(format stream "my way of printing foo with A=~A and B=~A"
(foo-a foo) (foo-b foo)))))
but I don't know how to call CL's built-in way of printing the
structure readably in the IF clause above.
Tamas
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