From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: print-circle and describe-variable Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:52:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4616EBD0.8020104@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176174294 5115 80.91.229.12 (10 Apr 2007 03:04:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:04:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 10 05:04:06 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hb2l4-0007ng-Dr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:54:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hb2ov-0004pV-P6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:58:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hb2ot-0004pM-3s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:58:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hb2os-0004pA-8q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:58:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hb2os-0004p4-56 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:58:42 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hb2kz-0008Qa-Qd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:54:41 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hb2ig-00057y-6b; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:52:18 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:15:19 -0400) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:69244 Archived-At: > 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?