[m-dev.] io__write et al

[Peter Schachte]

It's also worth mentioning that we talked about one further output
predicate:  io:pretty_print, which is like io:print only more so.  This
predicate will do all the fancy printing that io:print doesn't do (which
is easy to say because it hasn't been designed yet), including
depth-limited printing.  It is this predicate that the debugger will
probably want to use to display data.

One more thing we didn't discuss is writing out terms as dags; ie writing
terms so that when read back in they have the same sharing as they did
when written.  I believe io:write_binary should do this; perhaps this
isn't so important for io:write.

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