Fwd: t_QUAD printed representation

[John Cremona <john.cremona@gmail.com>]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
Date: 22 December 2017 at 14:12
Subject: Re: t_QUAD printed representation
To: John Cremona <john.cremona@gmail.com>


> * John Cremona <wbua.perzban@tznvy.pbz> [2017-12-22 12:55:16 +0000]:
>
> You might be less surprised by this (in the first line I assign the
> variable w to be the value which happens to also display as w):

I am surprised by read-print inconsistency.
I.e., reading a printed representation of an object does not recover it.


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