All I planned to do was finding a source for the somewhat often mentioned “Emacs Lisp doesn’t really have structs, it’s just vectors in disguise!”:
;; Don't bother adding to cl-custom-print-functions since it's not used ;; by anything anyway! ;;(if print-func ;; (push `(if (boundp 'cl-custom-print-functions) ;; (push ;; ;; The auto-generated function does not pay attention to ;; ;; the depth argument cl-n. ;; (lambda (cl-x cl-s ,(if print-auto '_cl-n 'cl-n)) ;; (and ,pred-form ,print-func)) ;; cl-custom-print-functions)) ;; forms))
As I wasn’t sure what this commented out code in the madness that the cl-defstruct macro is meant, I looked a bit further:
;;;###autoload (define-obsolete-variable-alias ;; This alias is needed for compatibility with .elc files that use defstruct ;; and were compiled with Emacs<24.3. 'custom-print-functions 'cl-custom-print-functions "24.3") ;;;###autoload (defvar cl-custom-print-functions nil "This is a list of functions that format user objects for printing. Each function is called in turn with three arguments: the object, the stream, and the print level (currently ignored). If it is able to print the object it returns true; otherwise it returns nil and the printer proceeds to the next function on the list. This variable is not used at present, but it is defined in hopes that a future Emacs interpreter will be able to use it.")
So, knowing that defining custom print syntax for useful things like reading back in structs again is a hopeless endeavor, does the first claim hold true?
(cl-defstruct love) ;=> love (make-love) ;=> [cl-struct-love]
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