From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, 43557@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43557: 28.0.50; Please document which objects are mutable and which are not
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2021 16:26:02 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a14e328f-cfa2-9269-66b8-48d4fe94e54a@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvtumf6mwp.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Hi Stefan,
On 03.06.2021 17:41, Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the
Swiss army knife of text editors wrote:
> Mutability says whether it is*possible*, rather than whether it's
> *allowed*. Most (all?) cons cells are mutable, but it is strongly
> recommended to refrain from mutating most cons cells (because it
> can/will have unexpected consequences because that same cons cell is
> also used elsewhere).
See bug#40671 (and the lengthy argument in there) to know how this term
in the Emacs manual came to mean something else than it usually means.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-04 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-22 8:29 bug#43557: 28.0.50; Please document which objects are mutable and which are not Philipp Stephani
2020-10-15 15:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-31 15:54 ` Philipp Stephani
2021-06-03 14:41 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-06-04 13:01 ` Philipp
2021-06-04 13:56 ` Philipp
2021-06-05 15:15 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-07-05 18:55 ` Philipp
2021-07-05 20:34 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-06-04 13:26 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
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