Subject: Re: bug#27177: 26.0.50: Macroexpanding cl-loop and friends (make-symbol usage)

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 20:52:44 -0400

Alex <[email-masked]> writes:

> Enabling print-gensym in this case is even worse, since evaluating the
> macroexpanded code yields a (void-variable #:--cl-var--) error.

Yeah, that's why you need `print-circle' too.

> Also, evaluating the macroexpanded code directly would allow for easier
> debugging, since one could make small adjustments to the output to see
> immediate results.

With print-circle, the output is debuggable in Emacs 26 (see Bug#23660).