From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> Cc: "Michael Heerdegen" <michael_heerdegen@web.de>, "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>, ke.vigouroux@laposte.net, 40671@debbugs.gnu.org, "Richard Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> Subject: bug#40671: [DOC] modify literal objects Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 10:40:59 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview] Message-ID: <329bbcc4-aaa7-4deb-a880-47a26e12aa26@default> (raw) In-Reply-To: <0c7570cb-bf52-a617-bf54-27a47c54e04a@cs.ucla.edu> Apologies for chiming in here again. And I haven't read the proposed text or followed the thread recently. But I just saw "Dangerous Mutations". I really don't think that it's helpful or appropriate to speak of danger in the context of the gotcha we've been discussing. Danger is danger. Yes, with undefined behavior, and with possible modification of list structure etc., there is the possibility of loss of data, and that's not a good thing. Undefined is scary. But I'm not in favor of crying "DANGER" about such things. At all. Check the Common Lisp doc. You don't find such screaming warnings plastered throughout, whenever it comes to destructive modification. The word "destructive" is sufficiently strong. And in the case of the gotchas being discussed it's not necessarily even destructive modification. The unknown/undefined is just that. No need (and inappropriate) to wrap it DANGEROUS! Just one opinion.
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2020-04-16 19:28 bug#40671: [DOC] modify literal objects Kevin Vigouroux via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-04-17 16:09 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-04-17 16:37 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-04-17 17:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-18 20:10 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-18 21:54 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-19 2:39 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-04-19 20:39 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-19 21:01 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-19 21:16 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-19 22:24 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-19 22:51 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-20 5:32 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-22 17:36 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-01 3:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-01 5:16 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-01 21:46 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-01 23:37 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-19 2:26 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-19 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-19 16:59 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-04-19 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-19 21:02 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-19 21:11 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-19 21:57 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-19 22:41 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-19 23:45 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-20 0:24 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-20 0:53 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-20 3:23 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-20 3:36 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-22 6:30 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-20 5:54 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-22 17:21 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-23 0:49 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-24 2:36 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-24 15:08 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-25 1:58 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-24 16:39 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-04-24 16:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-25 2:21 ` Paul Eggert
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2020-04-26 3:49 ` Paul Eggert
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2020-04-26 14:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2020-04-26 16:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-26 17:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
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2020-04-26 18:57 ` Paul Eggert
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2020-04-26 21:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-26 23:13 ` Paul Eggert
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2020-04-27 1:49 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-28 3:05 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-28 8:17 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-28 13:54 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-28 17:59 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-28 18:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-28 19:20 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-28 19:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-28 20:09 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-28 21:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-28 23:10 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-28 23:36 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-28 23:53 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-28 23:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-28 23:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-29 0:04 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-29 0:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-29 0:55 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-29 1:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-29 1:15 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-29 1:27 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-29 1:38 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-29 4:36 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-29 16:18 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-01 2:47 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-01 6:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-01 3:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-01 5:15 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-01 21:40 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-01 22:05 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-01 22:28 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-02 1:07 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 6:28 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-02 15:42 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 19:35 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-03 1:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-03 7:40 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-03 16:44 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-03 20:48 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-03 22:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-03 22:18 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-03 22:39 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-03 22:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-03 23:10 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-04 10:16 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-04 17:52 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-05 1:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-05 6:09 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-05 12:38 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-09 6:10 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-10 3:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-10 13:34 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-10 17:29 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-11 0:00 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-05-11 0:26 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-11 1:47 ` Drew Adams
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2020-05-11 2:33 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-11 2:56 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-05-11 4:21 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-11 4:51 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-05-11 6:28 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-11 13:57 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-05-11 22:36 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-05-11 22:30 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-05-12 3:20 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-12 4:24 ` Michael Heerdegen
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2020-05-17 0:11 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-17 9:43 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-05-17 16:38 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-11 1:53 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-11 3:18 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-05-11 0:44 ` Dmitry Gutov
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2020-05-17 1:28 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-17 5:02 ` Michael Heerdegen
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2020-05-17 12:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
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2020-05-05 17:40 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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2020-05-05 19:26 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-05 20:48 ` Kevin Vigouroux via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-05-09 5:57 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-28 21:18 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-28 17:25 ` Drew Adams
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2020-04-29 0:32 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-29 1:40 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-29 4:40 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-29 8:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-29 16:36 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-24 17:18 ` Drew Adams
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2020-04-25 2:22 ` Paul Eggert
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