From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: print-circle and describe-variable
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:52:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Hb2ig-00057y-6b@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvzm5kezsk.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:15:19 -0400)
> 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.
It's not too late for this. This is a fix for a problem that can
cause errors showing the value of a variable. It can't cause any
problem worse than the existing problem.
Do you see any technical reason why this change would be bad?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-09 22:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-07 0:54 print-circle and describe-variable Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-07 17:31 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-09 0:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-09 1:00 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-09 7:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-09 9:06 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-09 19:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-09 19:59 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-09 23:08 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-09 23:28 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-09 23:43 ` Drew Adams
2007-04-10 0:01 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-10 15:02 ` Drew Adams
2007-04-10 15:33 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-10 15:50 ` Drew Adams
2007-04-10 16:32 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-10 16:13 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-10 1:00 ` Miles Bader
2007-04-10 2:21 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-10 2:35 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-11 4:14 ` Richard Matthew Stallman
2007-04-11 5:16 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-11 23:04 ` Richard Matthew Stallman
2007-04-12 9:29 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-04-13 1:41 ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-11 16:33 ` Herbert Euler
2007-04-09 22:52 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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