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READ is used by the common-lisp reader for reading code, so it produces results following the rules of common-lisp syntax. If your file format used (double-)quoted strings then you would get what you wanted, but if your format is fixed by something else then you will need to use a different approach...

While it's true that you'll be walking the list either way, consing up a new list doesn't make a lot of sense :) You care about the remainder list because you will be puilling more values out of it (otherwise you'd just use NTH) If you try to pick a sub-list of 100 items from a list of 5000 items th...

I don't think there's an elegant solution to this problem, but I had to write a version that doesn't walk the list twice for code that grabs a random selection from a list in the thousands. (defun pop-nth-helper (n previous) (unless (< 0 n) (error "pop-nth-helper only works for 0 < n")) (d...

The clisp documentation page you linked tells you how to do it: Function EXT:SET-GLOBAL-HANDLER. The function (EXT:SET-GLOBAL-HANDLER condition handler) establishes a global handler for the condition. The handler should be FUNCALLable (a SYMBOL or a FUNCTION). If it returns, the next applicable hand...

As an example here is the script I use to connect a terminal to emacs on another machine
(I named it emacsc for quick access)

EXT:ABORT-ON-ERROR and EXT:EXIT-ON-ERROR are not what you want, probably. They act as PROGNs that execute a particular RESTART when code SIGNALs at runtime. So if you have a buffer with code, then if you wrap all of it with an EXT:EXIT-ON-ERROR then clisp will exit if something goes wrong. They don'...

It *is* possible to have lists print differently. You can do all sorts of weird things with the pretty printer[1] If you go this way make sure you use a copy of the pprint dispatch table, because the global one is used for printing things like macroexpansions. Depending on what you want to do it may...

IF is a SPECIAL-OPERATOR, it evaluates its first child for being non-NIL, if that's the case then it evaluates its second child and returns that as its result, or else it evaluates its third child and returns that. (LISTP 1) evaluates to NIL, because 1 is not a CONS, so it evaluates (+ 3 4) + is the...

Presumably allegro has an init file, but I've never used allegro so I cant tell you what it is.

Generally speaking you don't want to globally make changes to the pretty-printer variables, you should temporarily bind them with LET to the values you want for the print call in question.

You probably want *print-readably*, but if you only care about avoiding the truncation you can bind *print-lines*, and *print-level* and *print-length*.

If you are using FORMAT then you will also want to use ~w instead of ~a