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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: 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: Thu, 09 Jul 2020 22:20:20 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pn94pkaz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r1tkplnc.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 09 Jul 2020 21:51:19 +0300)

> Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2020 21:51:19 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: 42296@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> That's not really what I asked for.
> 
> And how does mutability enter the picture?  We could say something
> about it (but then we'd have to be less terse), but that doesn't in
> any way replace the need to say that in many cases the value will be a
> new string, IMO.

Here's what I had in mind:

  This function frequently, but not always, constructs a new string
  that is not @code{eq} to any existing string.  Lisp programs should
  not rely on the result being a new string nor on it being @code{eq}
  to an existing string.

  When this function returns a string @code{eq] to another, changing
  the result will also change that other string; to avoid that, use
  @code{copy-sequence} on the result.

WDYT?





      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-09 19:20 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
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 [this message]

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