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From: Wojciech Meyer <wojciech.meyer@googlemail.com>
To: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
Cc: "Johan Bockgård" <bojohan@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Buffer names are sometimes read-only objects in daemonized emacs
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:54:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mxt89254.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201007302041.18983.tassilo@member.fsf.org> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:41:18 +0200")

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>  writes:

> IMO a function shouldn't need to allow modification of it's return value
> explicitly, but instead should warn if that's possible.  But indeed,
> evaluating
>
>   (aset (buffer-name) 0 ?g)

How would you do this? I see that the check can be performed on only at
runtime. Bytecompiler will not warn, because the value might be
propagated, and Lisp is dynamicaly typed. (in simple cases like this it
is apparent, but consider just returning this value from function).

Wojciech



  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-30 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-29 20:30 How do I debug errors in post-command-hook? Tassilo Horn
2010-07-29 21:33 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-07-30  0:11 ` Johan Bockgård
2010-07-30  6:54   ` Tassilo Horn
2010-07-30 11:58     ` Johan Bockgård
2010-07-30 14:23       ` Buffer names are sometimes read-only objects in daemonized emacs (was: How do I debug errors in post-command-hook?) Tassilo Horn
2010-07-30 17:46         ` Buffer names are sometimes read-only objects in daemonized emacs Johan Bockgård
2010-07-30 18:41           ` Tassilo Horn
2010-07-30 19:54             ` Wojciech Meyer [this message]
2010-07-30 20:08               ` Tassilo Horn
2010-07-30 20:46                 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-07-30 21:48                 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-07-30 22:07                   ` Lennart Borgman
2010-08-01 23:09                     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-07-30 23:35                   ` Johan Bockgård
2010-08-01 23:10                     ` Stefan Monnier

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