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‘describe-variable’ unconditionally let-binds ‘print-circle’ to t

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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
 text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Sebastian Miele <iota <at> whxvd.name>,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 64835 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#64835: ‘describe-variable’
 unconditionally let-binds
 ‘print-circle’ to t
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2023 05:55:28 +0200

Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> writes:

> > Stefan, would it be ok to turn off `print-circle' for
> > `describe-variable' again, or would this break something in the new
> > code?
>
> I can't think of any reason it would break anything (famous last
> words, of course :-)

I have a strange feeling.  There was not some problem with numbering in
the #N syntax (with `print-circle' off) that lead you to this change, or
something like this?  I vaguely remember there was something...

Michael.

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