From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#40693: 28.0.50; json-encode-alist changes alist Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 17:32:12 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <769bd2ed-5844-86b1-e822-a91609130664@cs.ucla.edu> References: <7b043ea4-2633-45dc-8e7f-79f86ff00d95@cs.ucla.edu> <87ftcz6re3.fsf@web.de> <83579d76-f2aa-a3f7-3b10-1839199002f1@cs.ucla.edu> <87sggzatpx.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="117669"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.7.0 Cc: Ivan Andrus , 40693@debbugs.gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 20 02:33:18 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jQKNB-000UUd-JM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2020 02:33:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55668 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQKNA-00052O-E0 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 20:33:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53140 helo=eggs1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQKMx-000525-74 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 20:33:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs1p.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQKMv-0006W7-V4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 20:33:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:34719) by eggs1p.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQKMv-0006W0-I5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 20:33:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jQKMw-0005Qy-4f for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 20:33:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Paul Eggert Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 00:33:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 40693 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 40693-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B40693.158734274220843 (code B ref 40693); Mon, 20 Apr 2020 00:33:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 40693) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Apr 2020 00:32:22 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46265 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jQKMI-0005Q7-78 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 20:32:22 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:56822) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jQKMG-0005Pt-5n for 40693@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 20:32:20 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4F05160065; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 17:32:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id FsMY5FMDI1Dy; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 17:32:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FADD160079; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 17:32:13 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id i-iTHAvyyBIt; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 17:32:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (cpe-23-242-74-103.socal.res.rr.com [23.242.74.103]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 10F91160065; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 17:32:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87sggzatpx.fsf@web.de> Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:178688 Archived-At: On 4/19/20 5:25 PM, Michael Heerdegen wrote: > This can be confused with variables declared with `defconst' - these are > declared constants but it is possible to change their bindings. You are > speaking about self-evaluating symbols like nil and t, right? Yes, and this includes symbols that start with : in the initial obarray (though there's a weird exception for (set :foo :foo)). How about if we change "Modifying a constant symbol signals an error..." to "Changing a self-evaluating symbol's value signals an error..."?