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Re: Saving a elisp data structure into string and evaluating it back int
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Saving a elisp data structure into string and evaluating it back into objects |
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Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:12:44 +0200 |
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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".
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David Kastrup