Am Fr., 9. Dez. 2022 um 21:14 Uhr schrieb Arthur A. Gleckler
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> One reason I can see for making giving unreadable objects a readable representation is that it makes the job of code formatters easier.  If I have a transcript of a Scheme session that includes unreadable objects in its output, my formatter can still do something helpful with it.  Just a thought.

The general transcript of a Scheme session will also include strings
printed with `display`, so the formatter already has to do some
guesswork without #<...> objects.  The job isn't much harder when
#<...> is added, I think, because the cases where the closing > is
ambiguous are rare.

That said, John's suggestion to use #<"..."> solves the point you
brought up, although when working at the REPL (where an informal
output is enough), something like #<procedure car> is a bit more
pleasant than #<"procedure car">.

Marc