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From: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: #< syntax
Message-ID: <3387@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 3 Aug 88 21:31:00 GMT
Reply-To: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
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I notice that Steele comments, on pg 370:

"It is specifically and purposely NOT required that a CL implementation
be able to print an object of type hash-table, readtable, package, stream or
function in a way that can be successfully read back in by read; the
use of #< syntax is especially recommended for the printing of such objects."

What's the motive behind this, or is there one? Isn't one of the main things 
about lisp the uniformity of data and procedures?