I'm working my way through an intro to Clojure book, and I just got to the 
section on protocols. I might be missing something/committing a category 
error, but I'm wondering if there's a way to change the way a protocol is 
represented in the repl, akin to redefining `__repr__`/`__str__` in Python. 
The example protocol in the book involves a matrix (i.e., a vector of 
vectors). I can do this

(extend-protocol Matrix
    clojure.lang.IPersistentVector
    ...
    (pprint [vov] (clojure.pprint/pprint vov)))


which works fine when I call (pprint m) on a Matrix m:

(pprint m)
; [[0 0 0]
   [0 0 0]
   [0 0 0]]

What I'd like is to just have the same behavior "calling" the variable from 
the repl, i.e.

m
; [[0 0 0]
   [0 0 0]
   [0 0 0]]


Can/should this be done? Is this a job for macros? Am I just being 
lazy/un-Clojuric and just get over it and use (pprint m)?

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