On Wed, 2022-11-16 at 23:32 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
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> I can't find previous discussion of this, but if the idea is to make
> Emacs crash if you try to set a "constant" symbol, I think it is a
> bad
> idea.  The chance of breaking something is very high, and there is
> little to gain.
> 

Hi Richard,

Perhaps "constant" is a misnomer here. If you are refering to defconst-
defined variables, that is not what the patch is about. I'm refering to
self-evaluating forms/objects referenced by elisp code, i.e. the ones
that the constant vector in a bytecode object contains. The elisp
reference manual states that mutating self-evaluating forms results in
undefined behaviour, so marking them as const should be safe IMO.

Best,
Vibhav
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