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The Lisp printer makes its determination of how to print an object as follows:
If the value of *print-pretty* is true, printing is controlled by the current pprint dispatch table; see Pretty Print Dispatch Tables.
Otherwise (if the value of *print-pretty* is false), the object’s print-object method is used; see Default Print-Object Methods.