Hi Kevin,
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Kevin Reid kpreid@switchb.org wrote:
On Jan 21, 2011, at 16:48, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
*print-readably* nil --> all other *print-** variables bound like the values specified for WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX (except maybe *PRINT-ESCAPE*)
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.
To make sure it's not forgotten, I've filed a ticket for that.
Thanks for your feedback!
Bye,
Erik.