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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.