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## 22.1.3.11 Printing Pathnames

When printer escaping is enabled, the syntax `#P"..."` is how a pathname is printed by write and the other functions herein described. The `"..."` is the namestring representation of the pathname.

When printer escaping is disabled, write writes a pathname P by writing `(namestring` P`)` instead.

For information on how the Lisp reader parses pathnames, see Section 2.4.8.14 (Sharpsign P).

The following X3J13 cleanup issues, not part of the specification, apply to this section:

- PRINT-READABLY-BEHAVIOR:CLARIFY
- PATHNAME-PRINT-READ:SHARPSIGN-P

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