print-nickname

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Variable

Package: EXCL

If nil, which is its initial value, Lisp uses the full package name when printing the package qualifier of a symbol. If t, Lisp uses the principal nickname as the qualifier. The principal nickname is the first element of the list of nicknames returned by package-nicknames. Users of the trace facility may find it useful to set this variable to t>.

For example,

(let ((excl:*print-nickname* nil))
(format t "~S~%" 'ff:def-foreign-call))

prints

foreign-functions:def-foreign-call

while

(let ((excl:*print-nickname* t))
(format t "~S~%" 'ff:def-foreign-call))

prints

ff:def-foreign-call

See packages.htm for general information on the implementation of packages in Allegro CL.

The general documentation description is in introduction.htm. The index is in index.htm.