Re: print-circle and describe-variable

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > But we do believe that print-circle makes it possible to print out
> > recursive structures, or? And we do not believe that it disturbs printing
> > out non-recursive structures (except that it gets a bit slower), or?
>
> Actually, I believe it does affect printing non-circular structures in more
> ways than just by making it slower.
>
> Try (let ((print-circle t) (toto (list 2))) (prin1 (list toto toto)))
>
> In some cases, this is a good feature, but in many other cases it can be
> very confusing.


Interesting, but is not that just another bug?