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9.2 Reader and Printer

The " reader macro always constructs an object of type (simple-array character), even if all of the characters within the quotation marks are of type base-char. This implies that only strings of type (vector character) will be able to be printed when *print-readably* is true: attempting to print strings of other types will cause an error of type print-not-readable.