Hello,
This seems like it ought to be a FAQ, but google can't find an answer for
me - perhaps I just don't know what to search for?
Is there a way to tell the Lisp printer how I want instances of a given
class to be printed? I thought WRITE might be a generic and that I could
just add a method that specialised on my class, but this doesn't seem to
be the case (unless I'm hopelessly confused, which is entirely possible).
Thanks for any pointers.
Cheers,
Bill.
--
Dr. William Bland.
It would not be too unfair to any language to refer to Java as a
stripped down Lisp or Smalltalk with a C syntax. (Ken Anderson).
On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 02:17:10 +0000, William Bland wrote:
> Hello,
> This seems like it ought to be a FAQ, but google can't find an answer for
> me - perhaps I just don't know what to search for?
Sorry, I just googled for a few more minutes and found print-object.
Peter, maybe it makes sense to add this to chapter 15 of PCLtB (at least
as a footnote)? Seems (to me) like something people might want to do
fairly quickly, when they are first experimenting with CLOS (as I am at
the moment).
Cheers,
Bill.
--
Dr. William Bland.
It would not be too unfair to any language to refer to Java as a
stripped down Lisp or Smalltalk with a C syntax. (Ken Anderson).
William Bland <·······@abstractnonsense.com> writes:
> Peter, maybe it makes sense to add this to chapter 15 of PCLtB (at
> least as a footnote)? Seems (to me) like something people might want
> to do fairly quickly, when they are first experimenting with CLOS
> (as I am at the moment).
Yeah, I'll look into that. Did you see the discussion in in Chapter 18
(the Spam Filter chapter)? Perhaps I should just move that earlier.
-Peter
--
Peter Seibel ·····@javamonkey.com
Lisp is the red pill. -- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp
On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 03:01:44 +0000, Peter Seibel wrote:
> William Bland <·······@abstractnonsense.com> writes:
>
>> Peter, maybe it makes sense to add this to chapter 15 of PCLtB (at
>> least as a footnote)? Seems (to me) like something people might want
>> to do fairly quickly, when they are first experimenting with CLOS
>> (as I am at the moment).
>
> Yeah, I'll look into that. Did you see the discussion in in Chapter 18
> (the Spam Filter chapter)? Perhaps I should just move that earlier.
>
No, I haven't got that far yet. You could either move it earlier, or just
add a note somewhere in chapter 15 (or even 14) saying that printing of
objects will be discussed in chapter 18. I think either way would work
fine.
Cheers,
Bill.
--
Dr. William Bland.
It would not be too unfair to any language to refer to Java as a
stripped down Lisp or Smalltalk with a C syntax. (Ken Anderson).