From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark H Weaver Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: bug#16357: insufficient print abbreviation in error messages Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 12:57:17 -0400 Message-ID: <87lh1vrggi.fsf@netris.org> References: <20140105230032.GB30283@fysh.org> <87ziqezqg5.fsf@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1466701100 29033 80.91.229.3 (23 Jun 2016 16:58:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 16:58:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Zefram , 16357@debbugs.gnu.org, guile-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 23 18:58:04 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bG7ws-0003xV-QO for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2016 18:57:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38089 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bG7ws-0006tu-2L for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2016 12:57:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49164) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bG7wk-0006rf-Hj for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2016 12:57:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bG7wf-0007ij-Eo for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2016 12:57:41 -0400 Original-Received: from world.peace.net ([50.252.239.5]:42954) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bG7wf-0007iW-Ag for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2016 12:57:37 -0400 Original-Received: from c-73-253-48-168.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([73.253.48.168] helo=jojen) by world.peace.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bG7wY-00016U-Of; Thu, 23 Jun 2016 12:57:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87ziqezqg5.fsf@pobox.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Tue, 21 Jun 2016 14:17:30 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.95 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 50.252.239.5 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:18403 Archived-At: Andy Wingo writes: > Or, we could use print states. But print states are not so great and > ideally we would remove them eventually. We will need print states, or something like them, to support writing cyclic data structures as required by R7RS. Mark