From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Colascione Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: t and nil in pure memory? Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:53:11 -0500 Message-ID: <4B043487.4000102@censorshipresearch.org> References: <200911112023.nABKNrH6023933@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87pr7oxieq.fsf@freebits.de> <200911130524.nAD5O5uu009102@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87my2nsfh3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <877htqswq0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258566822 18175 80.91.229.12 (18 Nov 2009 17:53:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:53:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 18 18:53:35 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NAoik-0001sY-DV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:53:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40520 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NAoik-000451-Bo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:53:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NAoif-00044W-8L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:53:29 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NAoid-000442-QD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:53:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55652 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NAoid-00043y-L6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:53:27 -0500 Original-Received: from haystack.austinheap.com ([70.32.98.68]:45845 helo=haystacknetwork.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NAoiW-0002RO-B2; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:53:20 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:117192 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAksENIYACgkQ17c2LVA10VvpjgCg1p/JWAaXbxZyjTbOKoUVIkPB nqkAn2rXjjRSbYmDpuCHfDJaqngTnwFG =EYUk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----