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What does (1 2 3 . #2) mean?

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Message #17 received at 55395 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 55395 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Subject: Re: bug#55395: What does (1 2 3 . #2) mean?
Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 21:54:30 +0200

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Agreed (and agreed with Andreas as well).
> The main goal is to avoid inf-looping and the #NNN chosen is
> somewhat arbitrary.
>
> I don't think it's worth it to try and make those #NNN more precise.

So it seems like everybody basically agrees on that...  so if Mattias
wants to implement something here to give them some semantics, he can
pretty much choose whatever he wants?

Or just document that there's really no semantics here without
print-circle, if he prefers.

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