From: Daniel Colascione <daniel@censorshipresearch.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: dak@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: t and nil in pure memory?
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:53:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B043487.4000102@censorshipresearch.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvhbsrj0gu.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
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Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> I will spend the time to make unintern give an error for t and nil.
>
> Please don't. It's not just your time, it's the CPU time of everyone.
> There are *many* ways for the user to shoot herself in the foot and make
> her Emacs session completely unusable. We're not going to start and try
> and catch every one of them. It's a waste of everyone's time and energy.
unintern isn't exactly on the fast path.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-18 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-11 20:23 t and nil in pure memory? Dan Nicolaescu
2009-11-11 22:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-12 8:21 ` Tobias C. Rittweiler
2009-11-12 15:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-13 5:24 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-11-13 14:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-14 11:23 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-15 20:25 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-16 1:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-16 8:24 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-17 7:57 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-17 13:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-17 13:55 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-18 12:11 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-18 15:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-18 17:53 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2009-11-18 18:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-19 16:23 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-19 20:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-20 4:12 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-20 5:47 ` Chong Yidong
2009-11-22 6:48 ` Sam Steingold
2009-11-22 8:14 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-19 21:05 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-11-15 21:08 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-11-16 1:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-18 18:53 ` Ken Raeburn
2009-11-18 19:03 ` Daniel Colascione
2009-11-18 19:18 ` Tom Tromey
2009-11-18 19:13 ` Tom Tromey
2009-11-23 3:05 ` Ken Raeburn
2009-11-23 5:31 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-24 16:03 ` Ken Raeburn
2009-11-24 16:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-19 1:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-12 4:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-13 4:55 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-13 8:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-14 11:23 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-14 11:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-15 22:38 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-13 4:56 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-11-20 7:28 A. Soare
2009-11-20 8:09 ` David Kastrup
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