When *PRINT-READABLY* is true, other arrays are written as follows: if the ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE is T, the syntax #rankA contents is used. Otherwise, the syntax #A(element-type dimensions contents) is used.

As explicitly permitted by this section, specialized BIT and CHARACTER ARRAYs are printed with the innermost lists generated by the printing algorithm being instead printed using BIT-VECTOR and STRING syntax, respectively.

Variable CUSTOM:*PRINT-EMPTY-ARRAYS-ANSI*. Empty ARRAYs, i.e., arrays with no elements and zero ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE (because one of its dimensions is zero) are printed with the readable syntax #A(element-type dimensions contents), unless the variable CUSTOM:*PRINT-EMPTY-ARRAYS-ANSI* is non-NIL, in which case the arrays are printed using the [ANSI CL standard]-prescribed syntax #rankA contents which often loses the dimension information.