On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Mark Engelberg
<mark.engelb...@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Andy Fingerhut 
> <andy.finger...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> (defn print-regex-my-way [re]
>>   (print "#regex ")
>>   (pr (str re)))
>>
>> That might be closer to what you want.
>>
>
> Yes.  That does the trick.  That extra level of converting the regular
> expression to a string does the trick because pr "does the right thing"
> with strings, but not with regexes.  I'd classify pr's different behavior
> on regexes as a bug, but this is an effective workaround.
>

I found a deficiency with the trick of converting the regex to a string for
printing.

Consider:
(print-regex-my-way #"\s")
which will print as
#regex "\\s"

The extra \ changes the meaning of the regular expression.

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