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Unset Printing Existential Instances.
\end{coq_eval}
+Existential variables can be named by the user upon creation using
+the syntax {\tt ?[\ident]}. This is useful when the existential
+variable needs to be explicitly handled later in the script (e.g.
+with a named-goal selector, see~\ref{ltac:selector}).
+
\subsection{Explicit displaying of existential instances for pretty-printing
\label{SetPrintingExistentialInstances}
\optindex{Printing Existential Instances}}