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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: sds@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: with-standard-io-syntax
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:48:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvlih6vmwq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sjbgqply.fsf@gnu.org> (Sam Steingold's message of "Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:36:09 -0400")

> The introduction of print-length and print-level requires the CL-like
> macro with-standard-io-syntax which would bind these (and all the future
> variables which break read-back consistency) to nil.
> Right now, (rgrep "print-length nil" "*.el" "~/src/emacs/trunk/" nil)
> produces two dozen places where print-length is bound to nil and a quick
> examination shows that the set of variable which need to be bound to nil
> for print-read consistency is not uniformly understood.
> I already have been bitten by this, and I think others will be sooner
> rather than later.

We could/should probably ignore print-length when print-circle is
non-nil.


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-22 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-21 14:36 with-standard-io-syntax Sam Steingold
2012-08-22 17:48 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-08-22 18:30   ` with-standard-io-syntax Sam Steingold
2012-08-22 19:31     ` with-standard-io-syntax Davis Herring

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