Re: A question about read syntax and compiled backreferences

[David Kastrup]

"Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden> writes:

> On 1/27/07, Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> 16 minutes, to be precise.  Without print-circle, it takes just a couple
>> of seconds.
>
> Take a look at this thread:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2007-01/msg00470.html
>
> Kenichi has a patch to turn print-circle checking off via local
> variables. It is not yet installed.

In my book, this is just dealing with symptoms.  I don't think that
the ability to byte-compile code with circular lists is really
important enough to warrant this sort of inconvenience.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum