From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#42296: 27.0.91; Correct manual entry for 'concat' w.r.t. allocation [PATCH] Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2020 21:51:19 +0300 Message-ID: <83r1tkplnc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83wo3cppc5.fsf@gnu.org> <669987BB-B825-4C2C-B9FD-31F04E0D6013@acm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21832"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 42296@debbugs.gnu.org To: Mattias =?UTF-8?Q?Engdeg=C3=A5rd?= Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 09 20:52:13 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 1jtbeX-0005aj-AO for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2020 20:52:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48068 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jtbeV-0000AH-TU for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2020 14:52:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45868) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jtbeM-0000A5-Au for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2020 14:52:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:58359) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jtbeM-0002J8-1a for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2020 14:52:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jtbeL-0003SE-WE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2020 14:52:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2020 18:52:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 42296 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 42296-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B42296.159432070113237 (code B ref 42296); Thu, 09 Jul 2020 18:52:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 42296) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Jul 2020 18:51:41 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41672 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jtbe0-0003RR-Ms for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2020 14:51:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:60236) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jtbdy-0003R7-Aq for 42296@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2020 14:51:40 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34068) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jtbds-0002Hv-Pf; Thu, 09 Jul 2020 14:51:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2787 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jtbds-0003bF-A7; Thu, 09 Jul 2020 14:51:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: <669987BB-B825-4C2C-B9FD-31F04E0D6013@acm.org> (message from Mattias =?UTF-8?Q?Engdeg=C3=A5rd?= on Thu, 9 Jul 2020 19:56:59 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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:182873 Archived-At: > From: Mattias EngdegÄrd > Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 19:56:59 +0200 > Cc: 42296@debbugs.gnu.org > > > This loses too much useful information, IMO. Let's please say that > > the result is sometimes ("frequently"?), but not always, a new string, > > and that programs should not rely on that aspect. > > Here is a new version that adds this information, and recommends copy-sequence for mutability. 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. Thanks.