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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2018 21:20:13 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lg8bsvfm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvy3cboosf.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Sat, 08 Sep 2018 14:03:10 -0400)

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2018 14:03:10 -0400
> 
> > Or maybe the proposal is to modify 'aset' to do the above under the
> > hood?
> 
> No, "'aset' do the above under the hood?" is what we have now.

That's not my reading of the code.  It doesn't seem to cons a new
string.

But if I'm mistaken, and the current implementation does cons a new
string, then what is your problem with it?  The original string is not
mutable, it's just replaced wit ha new one.



  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-08 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-07 19:52 `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes Stefan Monnier
2018-09-07 21:33 ` Johan Bockgård
2018-09-07 23:12   ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-07 23:41     ` John Wiegley
2018-09-08  5:17       ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-08  6:34       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08  2:04     ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-08  2:17       ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-08  6:41     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 18:03       ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-08 18:20         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-09-08 18:36           ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-08 20:59             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 22:09               ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-09  5:22                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-10  0:18                   ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-09  6:07           ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-09  6:26             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-09 14:44               ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-09 15:17                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-09 16:27                   ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-10  5:48                     ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-10  3:03                   ` Stefan Monnier
2018-10-16 21:05                   ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-10  5:47                 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-10  5:48               ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-10  3:02             ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-08  6:03 ` Helmut Eller

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