Re: print-circle and describe-variable

[Richard Stallman]

    >     Sometime ago we had a discussion about printing variables with 
recursive 
    >     structures. As I remember it the conclusion was that we could not set 
    >     print-circle to t generally now. But is there something that prevents 
    >     describe-variable from let-bounding `print-circle' to t? I think this 
    >     would be convenient.

    > It sounds like a good idea to me.  Does anyone know of a reason not to
    > do it?

    I can think of one: too late.

It's not too late for this.  This is a fix for a problem that can
cause errors showing the value of a variable.  It can't cause any
problem worse than the existing problem.

Do you see any technical reason why this change would be bad?