[armedbear-ticket] [armedbear] #122: writeToString infrastructure doesn't support *PRINT-CIRCLE*

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#122: writeToString infrastructure doesn't support *PRINT-CIRCLE*
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 Reporter:  ehuelsmann  |       Owner:  nobody
     Type:  defect      |      Status:  new   
 Priority:  major       |   Milestone:        
Component:  java        |     Version:        
 Keywords:              |  
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 From a reaction of mine to a mail by Kevin Reid:


 > 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.

 That's a good point. Rather, it may even be better to explicitly bind it
 to T.

 This remark made me realize that our Java side writeToString actually
 doesn't support *PRINT-CIRCLE* which can be an issue when trying to debug
 ABCL before it has loaded the ERROR and PRINT-OBJECT infrastructures.

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