From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GC: marking traversal and pure symbols
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:20:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86wsxej8vu.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1I6faF-0006LC-3p@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri\, 06 Jul 2007 00\:38\:19 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> We can't make Qnil pure, because its plist can be written.
> (It can also be defined as a function, though that would be an
> ugly thing to do.)
Would it not make sense to restrict the purity notion to the value
cell of a symbol?
What would be the bad consequences of that?
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-06 7:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-05 13:10 GC: marking traversal and pure symbols Dmitry Antipov
2007-07-06 4:38 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-06 7:20 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-07-06 9:29 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-07-07 13:06 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-06 12:02 ` Ken Raeburn
2007-07-06 12:33 ` Andreas Schwab
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