From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: t and nil in pure memory? Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:55:31 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <871vjxntm4.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> 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=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258467440 5819 80.91.229.12 (17 Nov 2009 14:17:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:17:20 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 17 15:17:13 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 1NAOrG-0000CF-Ig for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:16:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45413 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NAOrF-0004fC-SG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:16:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NAOXM-0002R1-Ow for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:56:04 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NAOXI-0002Oa-72 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:56:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40041 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NAOXI-0002OV-1k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:56:00 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:51639) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NAOXH-000805-GQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:55:59 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NAOX8-0002Ny-LD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:55:50 +0100 Original-Received: from p5b2c2321.dip.t-dialin.net ([91.44.35.33]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:55:50 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by p5b2c2321.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:55:50 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p5b2c2321.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XyOYvNK5RLyhPBXnQ5UOTkj+Rbo= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:117094 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> I am skeptical that we have everything in place that is required to >> properly support > >> (unintern nil) >> (unintern t) > >> We should make them give errors -- that's much easier than >> making them "work". There's no reason they should be allowed. > > Rather I think there's no reason to spend any time either making them > work or making them signal an error. Well, you claimed that uninterning them was a concern for having the obarray links end in pure memory. -- David Kastrup