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authorKaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com>2018-04-10 06:16:53 -0700
committerKaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com>2018-04-10 06:16:53 -0700
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doc: new package fallback use by printer.
* txr.1: Update the description of how the printer avoids ambiguity when making use of the packag fallback list.
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@@ -45574,7 +45574,9 @@ The printer situation involving the fallback list is as follows.
If a symbol is being printed in a machine-readable way (not "pretty"),
has a home package and is not a keyword symbol, then a search takes place
through the current package and its fallback list. If the symbol is found
-in any of those places, then it is printed without a package prefix.
+in any of those places, and if those places are devoid of any symbols
+which have the same name, thus causing ambiguity, then the symbol is printed
+without a package prefix.
The listener situation involving the fallback list is a follows.
When tab completion is used on a symbol without a package