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[HIC at MIT-MC (Howard I. Cannon)]

From:     ALAN@MIT-AI
Date: Mon, 16 May 78 19:41:56 GMT
Original-Date: 05/16/78 15:41:56 EDT
Subject:
    To: (BUG LISP) at MIT-AI
    Typing '|A| gets a symbol with the proper print name, however
    the printer prints it as "A".  '|A| however prints like it should.
    Apparently an all zero number in the pname list is ignored?
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The reason that '|^@^@^@^@A| prints correctly is to prevent a screw where
a null byte anywhere in a word would cause the remainder of that word to be
ignored.  LISP now ignores trailing nulls.  Unfourtunatly, ^@ in printnames
is not fully implimented and I strongly recommend you do not use them....

--Howard