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From: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>,
	Sebastian Miele <iota@whxvd.name>,
	64835@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64835: ‘describe-variable’ unconditionally let-binds ‘print-circle’ to t
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 14:24:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <249D04A6-CB77-4EB6-88E4-5AA296A23209@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvsf8lm30d.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

15 aug. 2023 kl. 04.55 skrev Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:

> And doing the opposite (i.e. starting from the non-print-circle output)
> seems a lot less obvious/natural :-(

Yes, well, we are probably in a minority wanting the technically precise information up-front, and even then it's true that in most cases any non-circular structure sharing is irrelevant.






      reply	other threads:[~2023-08-15 12:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-24 16:42 bug#64835: ‘describe-variable’ unconditionally let-binds ‘print-circle’ to t Sebastian Miele
2023-07-24 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-24 17:23   ` Sebastian Miele
2023-08-06  2:54 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-08-08  3:00   ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-08  3:55     ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-08-08 12:55       ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-06 10:09 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-08-15  2:55   ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-15 12:24     ` Mattias Engdegård [this message]

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