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From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
To: uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 64960@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64960: Documentation for copy-sequence
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2023 22:59:16 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9fd2cf2e-04f7-380e-d8e3-dacb0a14a98d@gutov.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <PmGKU6vqjN1izFYWTP3QoUh2TVBtQxtOSPtUnCOlM58FswUVZA8PUiy7cxFq5IggQeXH0xe9c3dI6VnSU9mCOgFgomJ7h8bR1CZntYBnfCI=@proton.me>

On 30/07/2023 22:20, uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss 
army knife of text editors wrote:
> So it returns a copy but elements are not copied.  So what happens exactly ?
> You get a reference to the original ?  When I modify the copy, the original
> remains intact.

The list (if the sequence is a list) is new (from newly allocated cons 
cells), but the values inside (in cars of those conses) are shared with 
the original list.





  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-30 19:59 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
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
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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