From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>,
"Dmitry Gutov" <dgutov@yandex.ru>,
40671@debbugs.gnu.org, "Richard Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>,
ke.vigouroux@laposte.net
Subject: bug#40671: [DOC] modify literal objects
Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 07:02:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dxbm9wq.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a4f75317-a109-d672-04cb-9067fd025776@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sat, 16 May 2020 18:28:18 -0700")
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> ... and symbol-name is one of the cases.
I'm wondering about this one for a while, too. Is it that the resulting
string is really like the "object is part of an evaluated program"
cases, or is it just that modifying it has an unwanted side effect
(changing the name of the symbol, and Emacs doesn't handle this
correctly). I mean, you can modify a lot of objects in Emacs and that
will cause trouble. We surely don't want to call them all constant or
not safely mutable or whatever. How is the result of `symbol-name'
different from these other cases? Is it only that the side effect/ mess
is not visible from Lisp? Where do you draw the line? Yes, the hidden
question is still what your definition of safely mutable is.
Thanks,
Michael.
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2020-04-16 19:28 bug#40671: [DOC] modify literal objects Kevin Vigouroux via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-04-17 16:09 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-04-17 16:37 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-04-17 17:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-18 20:10 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-18 21:54 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-19 2:39 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-04-19 20:39 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-19 21:01 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-19 21:16 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-19 22:24 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-19 22:51 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-20 5:32 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-22 17:36 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-01 3:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-01 5:16 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-01 21:46 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-01 23:37 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-19 2:26 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-19 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-19 16:59 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-04-19 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-19 21:02 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-19 21:11 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-19 21:57 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-19 22:41 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-19 23:45 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-20 0:24 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-20 0:53 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-20 3:23 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-20 3:36 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-22 6:30 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-20 5:54 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-22 17:21 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-23 0:49 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-24 2:36 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-24 15:08 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-25 1:58 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-24 16:39 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-04-24 16:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-25 2:21 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-25 2:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-25 3:20 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-25 19:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-26 3:49 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-26 14:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-26 14:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-26 14:34 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-26 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-26 16:02 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-26 16:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-26 17:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-26 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-26 18:32 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-26 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-26 18:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-26 18:57 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-26 19:22 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-04-26 20:14 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-26 21:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-26 23:13 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-27 0:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-27 1:49 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-28 3:05 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-28 8:17 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-28 13:54 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-28 17:59 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-28 18:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-28 19:20 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-28 19:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-28 20:09 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-28 21:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-28 23:10 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-28 23:36 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-28 23:53 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-28 23:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-28 23:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-29 0:04 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-29 0:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-29 0:55 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-29 1:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-29 1:15 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-29 1:27 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-29 1:38 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-29 4:36 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-29 16:18 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-01 2:47 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-01 6:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-01 3:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-01 5:15 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-01 21:40 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-01 22:05 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-01 22:28 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-02 1:07 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 6:28 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-02 15:42 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 19:35 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-03 1:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-03 7:40 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-03 16:44 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-03 20:48 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-03 22:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-03 22:18 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-03 22:39 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-03 22:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-03 23:10 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-04 10:16 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-04 17:52 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-05 1:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-05 6:09 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-05 12:38 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-09 6:10 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-10 3:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-10 13:34 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-10 17:29 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-11 0:00 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-05-11 0:26 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-11 1:47 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-11 1:54 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-11 2:33 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-11 2:56 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-05-11 4:21 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-11 4:51 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-05-11 6:28 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-11 13:57 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-05-11 22:36 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-05-11 22:30 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-05-12 3:20 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-12 4:24 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-05-13 3:57 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-13 5:05 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-05-14 5:14 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <05BEF593-F16A-4DEE-98BC-653221F1F9EE@acm.org>
2020-05-17 0:11 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-17 9:43 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-05-17 16:38 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-11 1:53 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-11 3:18 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-05-11 0:44 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-11 1:57 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-12 1:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-17 1:28 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-17 5:02 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2020-05-17 16:34 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-17 12:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-17 16:21 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-05 17:40 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-05 18:49 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-05 19:26 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-05 20:48 ` Kevin Vigouroux via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-05-09 5:57 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-28 21:18 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-28 17:25 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-28 17:47 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-29 0:32 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-29 1:40 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-29 4:40 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-29 8:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-29 16:36 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-24 17:18 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-25 3:38 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-25 18:26 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-25 2:22 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-25 6:00 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-04-25 18:23 ` Paul Eggert
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2020-04-21 1:25 ` Michael Heerdegen
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