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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `unreadablep'
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 16:35:32 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1aetgdn.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bl1imhnd.fsf@gnus.org>

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> 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":
> ...
> Does anybody have any thoughts on this issue?

I can see a use of adding extra argument to prin1. If the argument is
set, prin1 errors when attempting to print unreadable object or
alternatively prints nil (or other symbol) instead of the unreadable
object.

Best,
Ihor




  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-12-15  8:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-15  7:49 `unreadablep' Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-15  8:19 ` `unreadablep' Po Lu
2021-12-15  8:35   ` `unreadablep' Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-15  9:42     ` `unreadablep' Po Lu
2021-12-15 11:16       ` `unreadablep' Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-15 11:25         ` `unreadablep' Po Lu
2021-12-15 12:19           ` `unreadablep' Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-15 12:22             ` `unreadablep' Po Lu
2021-12-15 12:35               ` `unreadablep' Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-15 12:42                 ` `unreadablep' Po Lu
2021-12-15 12:44                   ` `unreadablep' Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-15 12:46                     ` `unreadablep' Po Lu
2021-12-15 12:51                       ` `unreadablep' Po Lu
2021-12-15 12:58                       ` `unreadablep' Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-15 12:36               ` `unreadablep' Ihor Radchenko
2021-12-15 12:37                 ` `unreadablep' Po Lu
2021-12-15 17:00     ` [External] : `unreadablep' Drew Adams
2021-12-15  8:35 ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2021-12-15  9:51   ` `unreadablep' Po Lu
2021-12-15 10:20     ` `unreadablep' Ihor Radchenko
2021-12-15 10:21       ` `unreadablep' Ihor Radchenko
2021-12-15 10:21       ` `unreadablep' Po Lu
2021-12-15 10:36         ` `unreadablep' Ihor Radchenko
2021-12-15 10:44           ` `unreadablep' Po Lu
2021-12-15 11:12             ` `unreadablep' Ihor Radchenko
2021-12-15 11:16               ` `unreadablep' Po Lu
2021-12-15 11:39                 ` `unreadablep' Ihor Radchenko
2021-12-15 14:12 ` `unreadablep' Stefan Monnier
2021-12-16  5:48   ` `unreadablep' Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-16  8:03     ` `unreadablep' Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-17  7:18       ` `unreadablep' Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-16 15:35     ` `unreadablep' Qiantan Hong
2021-12-17  7:19       ` `unreadablep' Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-15 15:32 ` `unreadablep' Steingold
2021-12-15 16:04   ` `unreadablep' Qiantan Hong
2021-12-15 16:09 ` `unreadablep' Steingold
2021-12-15 20:21 ` `unreadablep' Philipp Stephani

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