Function

Summary

Remains as defined in ANSI Common Lisp. Additionally, you can control the depth at which slots inside arrays, structures and conses are described.

Package

common-lisp

Signature

describe object &optional stream => <no-values>

Arguments

object

An object.

stream

An output stream designator.

Description

The function describe displays information about the object object to the stream indicated by stream, as specified in ANSI Common Lisp.

Arrays, structures and conses are described recursively up to the depth given in the value of the variable *describe-level*. Beyond that depth, objects are simply printed.

See also

*describe-length*
*describe-level*
*describe-print-length*
*describe-print-level*