In article <······················@omikron.medizin.uni-ulm.de>,
kp gores <·····@sip.medizin.uni-ulm.de> wrote:
>hi,
>
>i have defined a structure with a print function. the structure consists
>of word and markup.
>the print function prints only the word, if no markup is there (i.e markup
>is nil) , or prints <markup>word</markup> if markup is non-nil. i print to
>a file/stream.
>
>unfortunately each output is preceded (or maybe followed?) by a blank,
>which i want to be able to suppress. how?
Use PRIN1 rather than PRINT. They're identical except that PRINT forces
whitespace around the object; ignoring optional arguments, it could be
defined as:
(defun print (object)
(terpri)
(prin1 object)
(princ " "))
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