From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: 64960@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, uzibalqa@proton.me
Subject: bug#64960: Documentation for copy-sequence
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 07:24:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877cqgwt4q.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <JLhZ56NUvsrDzqeshHwobStJE3X_JfkvtXVyWE8cE64xnGZqyC6ZyoapzpHpivDm0apbRqTJiJp_2dvt3rcAVtxa8B5KhiV8x1zw0xpN6-Y=@proton.me> (uzibalqa via's message of "Mon, 31 Jul 2023 02:31:18 +0000")
uzibalqa via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text
editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
> > > When I modify the copy, the original remains intact.
> >
> >
> > No, if you modify an element of the copy, the corresponding element of
> > the original is also changed. That's what "shared" means.
>
> Except for strings
It is irrelevant what happens when you modify elements of a copied
string because it is impossible. The statement is simply not applicable
to strings. That's why the docstring only speaks of "list, vector or
record".
Note that substituting a character in a string is not the same as
modifying the character. You are substituting a sequence element with
another one and not modifying an element in that case.
The same is true for the list (1 2 3) for example. Exactly the same
situation as for a string: You can replace the number 2 in a copy with
another one but you can't modify the number 2 in the list. Numbers and
characters are not mutable.
Michael.
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-30 16:42 bug#64960: Documentation for copy-sequence uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-30 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-30 19:20 ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-30 19:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-07-30 20:09 ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-30 20:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-07-30 20:41 ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-31 1:13 ` Drew Adams
2023-07-31 1:22 ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-31 1:36 ` Drew Adams
2023-07-31 1:50 ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-31 2:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-31 2:31 ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-31 5:24 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2023-07-31 6:19 ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-01 3:56 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-08-13 4:27 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-08-14 10:14 ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-14 23:46 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-08-15 0:43 ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-15 23:28 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-08-16 4:35 ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-11 15:55 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-07-31 14:34 ` Drew Adams
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