Per Bothner scripsit:

> I think this is wrong, and (arguably) misunderstands what
> display is about, which IMO is to produce plain unadorned
> human-readable output without extra delimiters.  Infinite
> data structures *should* produce infinite output.

How can infinite output be human-readable?  Humans don't have infinite
life spans.  Infinite output can be truncated by another process, but
in that case `write-simple` or `write-string` is probably the Right Thing.

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