From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Brooks <db48x@db48x.net>
Cc: matt@rfc20.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, conao3@gmail.com,
rms@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Interpret #r"..." as a raw string
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2021 12:24:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mtvgwpf2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874khowqyh.fsf@db48x.net> (message from Daniel Brooks on Sat, 06 Mar 2021 01:51:02 -0800)
> From: Daniel Brooks <db48x@db48x.net>
> Cc: rms@gnu.org, matt@rfc20.org, conao3@gmail.com,
> monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2021 01:51:02 -0800
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Yes, see above (and in general, see the "Mutability" node in the ELisp
> > manual).
>
> > I'm still not sure I understand how to correct that. If using "string
> > constant" is what is needed, then it's easy to switch to that
> > terminology throughout. But I'm not yet sure this is the way.
>
> I don't think that "constant" is the right word to use. After all, the
> string that you get from a string literal can be modified just like a
> string from any other source.
That's a separate issue, and that horse has been beaten to death
already, with the current ELisp manual's text that talks of
"immutable" objects being the best result we could come up with that
leaves everybody with at least a partial satisfaction. Please let's
not start that discussion again.
Let's agree that the word "constant" in the context of this discussion
is a purely syntactic term, it has nothing to do with the object's
mutability.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-06 10:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-26 18:18 [PATCH] Interpret #r"..." as a raw string Naoya Yamashita
2021-02-26 18:27 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-26 18:53 ` Naoya Yamashita
2021-02-26 19:03 ` Drew Adams
2021-02-26 19:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-26 20:23 ` Naoya Yamashita
2021-02-26 20:34 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-02-26 20:39 ` Naoya Yamashita
2021-02-26 20:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-02-26 20:50 ` Naoya Yamashita
2021-02-26 20:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-02-26 20:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-26 20:34 ` Naoya Yamashita
2021-02-26 19:09 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-02-26 20:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-27 0:39 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-02-27 16:14 ` Richard Stallman
2021-02-27 16:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-01 5:19 ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-02 5:45 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-03-03 5:53 ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-03 6:14 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-03-03 7:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-04 2:47 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-03-04 13:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-04 16:55 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-03-05 5:44 ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-05 5:39 ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-05 8:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-06 5:13 ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-06 6:04 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-03-07 6:13 ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-07 17:20 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-03-06 8:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-06 9:51 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-03-06 10:24 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-03-07 6:08 ` Richard Stallman
2021-02-27 20:41 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-02-28 6:22 ` Zhu Zihao
2021-03-01 5:26 ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-01 12:06 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-03-01 12:13 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-03-02 5:59 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-03-02 9:56 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-03-02 10:13 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-03-02 10:55 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-03-02 11:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-03-02 11:26 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-03-02 11:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-03-02 11:52 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-03-02 12:01 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-03-02 14:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-03-02 14:32 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-03-02 15:06 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-03-02 11:41 ` Aurélien Aptel
2021-03-02 13:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-02 14:46 ` Aurélien Aptel
2021-03-02 15:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-02 16:07 ` Aurélien Aptel
2021-03-03 7:31 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-03-03 16:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-02 20:36 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-03-03 0:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-03 0:42 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-03-03 8:16 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-03-03 9:25 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-03-03 9:29 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-03-03 10:02 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-03-03 10:11 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-03-03 10:14 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-03-03 11:48 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-03-03 10:12 ` Michael Albinus
2021-03-03 10:42 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-03-03 10:49 ` Michael Albinus
2021-03-03 16:12 ` Stefan Monnier
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