Re: `unreadablep'

[Stefan Monnier]

> Do we have any primitive that can be used to check whether an object is
> printable or not?  Code like this (from savehist.el) makes me believe
> "not":

IIRC we discussed such a feature but it never got installed.

My memory suggests the plan was to add something like
a `print-unreadable-function` that gets called with the offending
object.  It could then print it any which way it wants, or signal an
error or ...


        Stefan