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From: | Lennart Borgman (gmail) |
Subject: | Re: print-circle and describe-variable |
Date: | Mon, 09 Apr 2007 03:00:46 +0200 |
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Stefan Monnier wrote:
Sometime ago we had a discussion about printing variables with recursive structures. As I remember it the conclusion was that we could not set print-circle to t generally now. But is there something that prevents describe-variable from let-bounding `print-circle' to t? I think this would be convenient.It sounds like a good idea to me. Does anyone know of a reason not to do it?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?
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