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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
Cc: 42296@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42296: 27.0.91; Correct manual entry for 'concat' w.r.t. allocation [PATCH]
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 14:52:25 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o8omnu9y.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87CAAEDE-4AE2-4224-A3E3-6597E6449B1D@acm.org> (message from Mattias Engdegård on Sat, 11 Jul 2020 13:15:39 +0200)

> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>
> Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 13:15:39 +0200
> Cc: 42296@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
>  In particular, the returned value should not be altered, because doing
>  so may inadvertently change another string, alter a constant string in
>  the program, or even raise an error.

Too definitive to my palate, sorry.

You may wish reading the recent long discussions of what is/should be
and what isn't/shouldn't be immutable.  Turns out some of us are very
sensitive to "should not" being used where "we recommend you not" or
"make sure you know what you are doing" is what actually is the truth.

Once again, we are not talking to kindergarten kids.





  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-11 11:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-09 15:54 bug#42296: 27.0.91; Correct manual entry for 'concat' w.r.t. allocation [PATCH] Mattias Engdegård
2020-07-09 17:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-09 17:56   ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-07-09 18:51     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-09 19:17       ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-07-09 19:24         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-10 17:04           ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-07-10 18:08             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-11 11:15               ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-07-11 11:52                 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-07-11 12:51                   ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-07-11 13:07                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-11 13:16                       ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-07-11 13:37                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-11 13:47                           ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-07-11 16:17                       ` Drew Adams
2020-07-12  3:03                       ` Richard Stallman
2020-07-09 19:20       ` Eli Zaretskii

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