Re: A question about read syntax and compiled backreferences

[David Kastrup]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Can't we just catch the error, remove what has been printed so far,
>> and retry with print-circle set?
>
> See the start of this thread.  When printing without print-circle there is
> a simplistic circle check that can avoid the error, but creates output
> that cannot be read back in.

If it avoids the circle, it presumably also detects it.  Why can't it
throw an error then instead of producing output that can't be read in
again?

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum