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<b>Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition</b>
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<H1><A NAME=SECTION006140000000000000000>2.14. Unreadable Data Objects</A></H1>
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Some objects may print in implementation-dependent ways.
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Such objects cannot necessarily be reliably reconstructed from
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a printed representation, and so they are usually printed in
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a format informative to the user but not acceptable to the <tt>read</tt> function:
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<tt>#<<i>useful information</i>></tt>.
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The Lisp reader will signal an error on encountering <tt>#<</tt>.
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As a hypothetical example, an implementation might print
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#<stack-pointer si:rename-within-new-definition-maybe #o311037552>
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for an implementation-specific ``internal stack pointer'' data type
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whose printed representation includes the name of the type,
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some information about the stack slot pointed to, and the machine address
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(in octal) of the stack slot.
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See <tt>print-unreadable-object</tt>, a macro that prints an object using <tt>#<</tt>
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syntax.
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