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Re: print-circle and describe-variable
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: print-circle and describe-variable |
Date: |
Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:25:27 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.96 (gnu/linux) |
> 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.
Stefan
- print-circle and describe-variable, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/04/06
- Re: print-circle and describe-variable, Richard Stallman, 2007/04/07
- Re: print-circle and describe-variable, Stefan Monnier, 2007/04/08
- Re: print-circle and describe-variable,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: print-circle and describe-variable, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/04/09
- Re: print-circle and describe-variable, Chong Yidong, 2007/04/09
- Re: print-circle and describe-variable, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/04/09
- RE: print-circle and describe-variable, Drew Adams, 2007/04/09
- Re: print-circle and describe-variable, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/04/09
- RE: print-circle and describe-variable, Drew Adams, 2007/04/10
- Re: print-circle and describe-variable, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/04/10
- RE: print-circle and describe-variable, Drew Adams, 2007/04/10
- Re: print-circle and describe-variable, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/04/10
- Re: print-circle and describe-variable, Chong Yidong, 2007/04/10