I'm getting into some Lisp, and I've come across various different functions that to me appear to be doing the same thing... Namely printing to console... So what exactly is the difference between all those different functions?
This is answered here: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_wr_pr.htm
write
is the general entry point to the Lisp printer. prin1
produces output suitable for input to read
.princ
is just like prin1
except that the output has no escape characters. princ
is intended to look good to people, while output from prin1
is intended to be acceptable for the function read
.print
is just like prin1
except that the printed representation of object is preceded by a newline and followed by a space.pprint
produces pretty output.