From: "João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Accept plists when serializing and parsing JSON
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2018 14:43:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874likrnnx.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvk1rgo792.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 03 Jun 2018 00:05:55 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> Notice the use of "change" in that docstring. Looking up the value of
> a dynamically-scoped variable doesn't *change* global state, but it
> *uses* global state.
Yeah, but it's the "change" bit that usually counts: it's (sneakily)
writing shared state that has the bug potential alluded to by Yuri.
That said, lisp is particularly bad territory for purity advocates. Many
many functions use global state, and many more change it just by consing
up something, or interning a symbol.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-03 13:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-29 14:59 [PATCH] Accept plists when serializing and parsing JSON João Távora
2018-05-29 21:20 ` Philipp Stephani
2018-05-29 22:03 ` João Távora
2018-05-30 6:37 ` Yuri Khan
2018-05-30 8:58 ` João Távora
2018-06-02 8:04 ` Philipp Stephani
2018-06-03 0:34 ` João Távora
2018-06-03 4:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-03 13:43 ` João Távora [this message]
2018-06-02 7:45 ` Philipp Stephani
2018-06-02 7:39 ` Philipp Stephani
2018-06-01 9:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-01 23:29 ` João Távora
2018-06-02 6:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-02 8:24 ` Philipp Stephani
2018-06-02 9:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-02 16:46 ` Philipp Stephani
2018-06-02 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-08 14:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-02 8:30 ` Philipp Stephani
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