[Python-3000] Recursive str

[Guido van Rossum]

[Jason Orendorff]
>  Or have str.__repr__() respect per-thread settings, the way decimal
>  arithmetic does.

I don't think that's a very compelling example. I have serious issues
with having global or per-thread state that can change the outcome of
repr(); it would make it impossible to write correct code involving
repr() because you can never know what it will do the next time.

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