From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: "sindikat@mail36.net" <sindikat@mail36.net>, 18012@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18012: 24.3; Can't print a huge list structure in IELM
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:44:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87604wedzl.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a7u8eejj.fsf@tcd.ie> (Basil L. Contovounesios's message of "Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:32:16 +0100")
"Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie> writes:
> 1. emacs -Q
> 2. M-x emacs-version RET
> => GNU Emacs 27.0.50
> (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
> of 2018-04-08
> 3. M-x ielm RET
> 4. (let ((l (make-list 2 0)))
> (nconc l (cdr l)))
> 5. C-m
> => infloop
> 6. C-g
> => *** IELM Error *** Quit during pretty-printing
>
> This is in contrast to the *scratch* buffer, where C-j correctly inserts
> the result of (4) as (0 0 . #1), presumably because pp is used instead
> of cl-prin1.
>
> Does this behaviour warrant a new bug?
I say "correctly", but I mean "without inflooping", as I am not sure
how, if at all, circular objects should be printed when print-circle is
nil.
Note that there is no infloop when printing a "top-level" circle, e.g.:
(let ((l (list 0)))
(nconc l l))
--
Basil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-12 13:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-14 7:11 bug#18012: 24.3; Can't print a huge list structure in IELM sindikat
2016-08-09 1:47 ` npostavs
2018-04-12 13:32 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-04-12 13:44 ` Basil L. Contovounesios [this message]
2018-04-12 14:21 ` Noam Postavsky
2021-09-04 8:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87604wedzl.fsf@tcd.ie \
--to=contovob@tcd.ie \
--cc=18012@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=npostavs@users.sourceforge.net \
--cc=sindikat@mail36.net \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).