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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Saving a elisp data structure into string and evaluating it back into objects
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:12:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y6nkbqqr.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.8409.1255096239.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> writes:

> Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
>> tomas@tuxteam.de writes:
>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 10:05:26AM +0200, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
>>>> Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com> writes:
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> This is not feasible using print and read, since not all lisp objects
>>>> are printable readably.
>>>       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>
>>> Wow, Pascal. Nice phrase. May I use it from time to time?
>
> As a native speaker, I think that should be "readably printable".

I don't think so, because readability is the result, not the manner of
printing.  "readily printable", but "printable readably".  It is
"printable in a readable manner", not "in a readable manner printable".

-- 
David Kastrup


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-09 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.8197.1254884360.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-07  8:05 ` Saving a elisp data structure into string and evaluating it back into objects Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-10-07 16:44   ` tomas
     [not found]   ` <mailman.8243.1254933762.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-08 12:02     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-10-09 13:50       ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found]       ` <mailman.8409.1255096239.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-09 14:12         ` David Kastrup [this message]
2009-10-16  2:13           ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-10-12 16:54         ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-10-06 23:08 Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-10-07 12:57 ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-10-07 15:09   ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-10-07 15:33     ` Lennart Borgman
2009-10-07 16:23       ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-10-08 22:51         ` Lennart Borgman

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