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From: Ivan Andrus <darthandrus@gmail.com>
To: 40692@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40692: 28.0.50; Constant list modified inside  function
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 21:05:31 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A4646238-FFD3-4D65-A412-F78A12D0ACE3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57990C74-5CA1-42E6-83EC-7F6858AFD0E7@gmail.com>

On Apr 17, 2020, at 5:45 PM, Ivan Andrus <darthandrus@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I believe this is the root cause of a bug in magit/forge https://github.com/magit/forge/issues/267 in which all subsequent pull requests created have the same name.  The maintainer of magit/forge (tarsius) was unable to reproduce that bug, so I tried my hand at creating a minimal test case, and I was able to get it down to this.
> 
> Now, I understand reference semantics of lists in general, but it seems like this should be different.  If this behavior is intentional, what's the best way to for creation of a new list every time so that functions using the alist don't have to worry about not changing the list?

I tracked down the function doing the actual changing: json-encode-alist.  I filed https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=40693   

I still find the behavior here confusing, but I expect it will be considered expected behavior.

-Ivan




  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-18  3:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-17 23:45 bug#40692: 28.0.50; Constant list modified inside function Ivan Andrus
2020-04-18  3:05 ` Ivan Andrus [this message]
2020-04-18  9:18 ` Štěpán Němec
2020-04-18 22:49   ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-19  7:08     ` Štěpán Němec
2021-08-29 22:18       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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