[slime-devel] Avoid low apply limit

[Raymond Wiker]

Lynn Quam writes:
 > Helmut Eller wrote:
 > 
 > >  Eduardo Muñoz <emufer at terra.es> writes:
 > >  
 > >  > LispWorks has a low args limit for apply. The following
 > >  > patch (inlined below) avoids landing on sldb when inspecting
 > >  > long lists. I think that its safe to #'nconc (nreverse
 > >  > ... but there isnt a noticeable change of speed or consing
 > >  > so it may be more conservative to just use reduce.
 > >  
 > >  Fixed now.  Thanks for the note.
 > >  
 > >  Helmut.
 > 
 > 
 > It would be nice if there was some better control of the printing of
 > arrays.  *PRINT-ARRAY* allow for arrays to always be printed or never
 > be printed.  What would be useful is a variable *PRINT-ARRAY-SIZE*
 > that says to print arrays whose number of elements is less than or
 > equal to *PRINT-ARRAY-SIZE* and *PRINT-ARRAY* in non-NIL.  (I seem to
 > recall that the Lisp Machines had such a variable, but I cannot recall
 > its exact name.)

        Can't *print-length* be used?