Re: print-circle and describe-variable

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 03:00:46 +0200
> From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> > I can think of one: too late.
> 
> 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?
> 
> Could it make much harm then if we let describe-variable use it? And is 
> it not a bug that Emacs hangs and eats all memory if you try to display 
> a recursive structure with describe-variable?

Lennart, there will always be ``one more bug''.  If we strive to
release Emacs without bugs at all, we will never release!

This particular bug is not serious enough to risk postponing the
release.