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authorPhillip Rulon <pjr@gnu.org>1999-10-05 23:26:05 +0000
committerPhillip Rulon <pjr@gnu.org>1999-10-05 23:26:05 +0000
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@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ returns the symbol @code{foo}. Printing a list whose elements are
text produces a list (but not the same list) with elements @code{a}
and @code{b}.
- However, these two operations are not precisely inverses. There are
-three kinds of exceptions:
+ However, these two operations are not precisely inverse to each other.
+There are three kinds of exceptions:
@itemize @bullet
@item
@@ -783,31 +783,3 @@ If non-@code{nil}, this variable enables detection of uninterned symbols
uninterned symbols print with the prefix @samp{#:}, which tells the Lisp
reader to produce an uninterned symbol.
@end defvar
-
-@tindex print-continuous-numbering
-@defvar print-continuous-numbering
-To print several objects with shared structure in common, you should
-bind @code{print-continuous-numbering} to @code{t} around them all.
-That tells @code{print} not to reinitialize @code{print-number-table}
-each time.
-@end defvar
-
-@tindex print-number-table
-@defvar print-number-table
-This variable holds the table used as the basis of outputting
-@samp{#@var{n}=} and @samp{#@var{n}#} constructs for circular and shared
-structure. When you want to print several objects with shared structure
-in common, you should bind @code{print-number-table} to @code{nil}
-around them all.
-@end defvar
-
- Here is an example of printing two objects with a common
-set of shared substructure:
-
-@example
-(let ((print-circle t)
- (print-continuous-numbering t)
- print-number-table)
- (print1 x)
- (print1 y))
-@end example