From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#40671: [DOC] modify literal objects Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 22:36:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83tv1finob.fsf@gnu.org> <1E9E4C19-37C2-4E24-91B7-8101F9CFBF35@acm.org> <527dc4b5-3176-38b5-f2c1-1483ffc814a1@cs.ucla.edu> <87k12b6sv2.fsf@web.de> <2225099d-16e1-645d-0342-a054da53363f@cs.ucla.edu> <87a7376nv9.fsf@web.de> <99d7a8f9-7732-e1e3-414e-aabbea4433ac@cs.ucla.edu> <87o8rnasfk.fsf@web.de> <9e6c138d-cb9f-6075-34df-a8d1d931343b@cs.ucla.edu> <871rofxbz9.fsf@web.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="24877"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: mattiase@acm.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 40671@debbugs.gnu.org, ke.vigouroux@laposte.net To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 24 04:39:01 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 1jRoF2-0006Ku-33 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 04:39:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47620 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRoF1-0003Xk-5V for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 22:38:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51318) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRoEI-0002iI-Gl for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 22:38:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRoE6-0005qy-NQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 22:38:13 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:44581) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRoE6-0005pr-7b for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 22:38:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jRoE6-0000DJ-3X for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 22:38:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 02:38:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 40671 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 40671-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B40671.1587695823726 (code B ref 40671); Fri, 24 Apr 2020 02:38:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 40671) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Apr 2020 02:37:03 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56127 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jRoD9-0000Be-Gg for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 22:37:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:43048) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jRoD8-0000B6-FG for 40671@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 22:37:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33352) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRoD2-0002gu-1n; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 22:36:56 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jRoD1-0006ib-5R; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 22:36:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <871rofxbz9.fsf@web.de> (message from Michael Heerdegen on Thu, 23 Apr 2020 02:49:30 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 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:178880 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] It seems strange to use the terms "constant" and "mutable" to describe whether modifying its contents is something you had better avoid. I think people will find that terminology confusing. Normally "mutable" means that you CAN change it, not that it is OK to change it. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)