Re: Franz Question

[johnson <johnson%udel-dewey.delaware@udel-relay.ARPA>]

--------------------  for franz -----------------------------
In franz lisp, 'prinlevel' is a variable controlling the
depth to which the top-level is to print lists, 'prinlength'
controls how many elements of a list are printed by the
top-level. For either variable, a value of 'nil' represents
infinite depth or length.

If franz is printing expressions as '&' then 
prinlevel has a value of 0.

you should
(setq prinlevel nil)
to print lists of arbitrary depth.
(see Appendix B of the Franz manual)

----------------  for CMU --------------------

In CMULisp, tlprint does the top-level printing, and this is
defined, (in, at least the 2 systems that I use) as:

	'(lambda (x) (printlev x 4))

if your functions always return &, then perhaps someone has defined
it as '(lambda (x) (printlev x 0))

if you want to change it you may either:
1.  (sstatus translink nil)
    (defun tlprint (x) (printlev x <some-large-number>))

OR,  the solution  I prefer:

2.  (load 'toplevel)  ; unnecessary in some installations.
    (defun tlprint (x) (top-print x))
  
causing 'prinlevel' and 'prinlength' to have
the effect described above for the franz system.
 
 NB: the tempting solution:
 (defun tlprint (x) (printlev x prinlevel))
 FAILS in the case that prinlevel is nil


-johnson@udel-ee