Re: Issue: FORMAT-PRETTY-PRINT (version 3)

[Dan L. Pierson <pierson%mist@multimax.ARPA>]

    I think it's confusing to say that FORMAT always binds *PRINT-ESCAPE* to
    NIL and also either binds it to T or NIL as required by various directives.
    
That was a kludge to make it clear that non of the text in format
statements is ever escaped.  It is probably unnecessary and a mistake.

    Furthermore, this would seem to disallow directives which don't bind any
    of those *PRINT-xxx* variables.  VAX LISP has a ~W directive which prints
    using the current *PRINT-xxx* bindings.
    
Good point.  A new draft will appear shortly.