From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 55395@debbugs.gnu.org, "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
Subject: bug#55395: What does (1 2 3 . #2) mean?
Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 21:54:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ee0xyzrd.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvee0xjqys.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 13 May 2022 13:20:51 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> Agreed (and agreed with Andreas as well).
> The main goal is to avoid inf-looping and the #NNN chosen is
> somewhat arbitrary.
>
> I don't think it's worth it to try and make those #NNN more precise.
So it seems like everybody basically agrees on that... so if Mattias
wants to implement something here to give them some semantics, he can
pretty much choose whatever he wants?
Or just document that there's really no semantics here without
print-circle, if he prefers.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-13 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-13 11:32 bug#55395: What does (1 2 3 . #2) mean? Mattias Engdegård
2022-05-13 15:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-13 17:20 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-13 19:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-05-13 20:01 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-05-14 13:45 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-18 14:29 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-05-18 21:16 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-23 14:59 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-05-13 16:08 ` Andreas Schwab
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