[armedbear-devel] Design issue regarding condition printing (was: Error reporting problems)

[Kevin Reid]

On Jan 21, 2011, at 16:48, Erik Huelsmann wrote:

> *print-readably* nil
> --> all other *print-** variables bound like the values specified for
> WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX (except maybe *PRINT-ESCAPE*)


I don't think it's a good idea to explicitly bind *print-circle* to  
nil in anything debugging-related, including error printing, because  
then it's a source of nontermination (silent until out of memory, if  
the output is going to a string) if user code is working with circular  
structure.

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Kevin Reid                                  <http://switchb.org/kpreid/>