[slime-devel] Re: (string= "(function . (cons))" "(function cons)") ==> nil

[Helmut Eller]

Michael Livshin <usenet at cmm.kakpryg.net> writes:

> I'm lacking those too, but I found the culprit: I have *PRINT-CIRCLE*
> set to T in my ~/.cmucl-init.lisp.
> 
> so perhaps you just want to bind it to NIL inside #'PRINT-ARGLIST.

Yes that helps.  Thanks for the tip.  But I still don't understand why
it is needed.

> > I disabled the tests and moved FAIRLY-STABLE back to SLIME-0-10.
> 
> oooh.  perhaps that's premature; I think I'm already addicted to the
> starting animation. :)

:)

OK, will move the FAIRLY-STABLE tag to SLIME-0-11 and hope that no
newbie sets *PRINT-CIRCLE* to t.

Helmut.