From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#55156: [PATCH] eval.c: New functions `defvar-f` and `defconst-f` Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 23:10:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87tuaep47a.fsf@gnus.org> <87pml2p35g.fsf@gnus.org> <83r15hbw47.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36248"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 55156@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 29 05:11:31 2022 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 1nkH2Z-0009Ez-CB for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2022 05:11:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58642 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nkH2Y-0007zy-D6 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2022 23:11:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44746) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nkH27-0007HI-7Q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2022 23:11:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:56507) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nkH26-0007gi-UY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2022 23:11:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nkH26-0003m7-Oq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2022 23:11:02 -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, 29 Apr 2022 03:11:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 55156 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 55156-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B55156.165120185114481 (code B ref 55156); Fri, 29 Apr 2022 03:11:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 55156) by debbugs.gnu.org; 29 Apr 2022 03:10:51 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50401 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nkH1v-0003lT-15 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2022 23:10:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:51276) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nkH1r-0003ku-AF for 55156@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2022 23:10:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:38774) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nkH1m-0007ay-22; Thu, 28 Apr 2022 23:10:42 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=YcK0otTqYCT5aRuwH2vo1WhecQgyZ3BRhHu88uG62tM=; b=m4UA1JJNpR6v iIJLaWEQ0k3Jj1FLXBKv/yOe8j/nCuCJRj3dK4XliAAixSD+xWcq3pzZqCV9AHaWLbVQhNddEUdSg 7C/tfD8Vvdoe4UFVvDqNbX0FclTYwuknaS0ISb4LnlQsHJgN02ftoSBIEKiGfgi4uHZFEknIT2kZH wxm/mnm+k/AexLjoZPiN5QRdHhSoUK1nzqZKkf2Wor3BI0tivFK4AVkJrlXaBgS2TITSPF3iEyTYf SE33oR1d/pa7ZKfPShrhUaEgh878K8cPs4LZonqA2gWgdm6wgcfK0PrB32eNX1BbwfgWOqmceUxNq BZyxaaBeVif4YcbeciDR6w==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nkH1l-0001l8-Nb; Thu, 28 Apr 2022 23:10:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83r15hbw47.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 28 Apr 2022 08:44:08 +0300) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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:230924 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. ]]] > I sincerely question the wisdom of messing with this, for the reasons > that were described, which seem to be some inelegant code somewhere in > the bowels of the byte compiler. Do we really care enough about such > inelegance to make potentially breaking changes in code that works for > decades and causes zero trouble to Lisp programmers? I feel the same. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)