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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>,
	Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master f51f963: Fix some side-effecting uses of make-text-button
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2020 16:42:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9eea99fd-a77d-8c14-4c8b-a6210da878cf@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv3676q4w4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

On 6/7/20 8:24 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> String literals yield constant strings when evaluated.
> This seems less obvious.  How do you do that?

Well, perhaps my terminology wasn't the best.

The basic idea is that when 'read' scans a string literal, it yields a constant
string rather than a mutable one. Similarly for when you load string literal
from an .elc file, or restore a string from a dump where the string came from a
string literal, etc. So evaluating a string literal gives you a constant because
string literals are self-quoting and they are constants already.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-07 23:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <20200604223058.1850020A26@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2020-06-04 22:44   ` master f51f963: Fix some side-effecting uses of make-text-button Stefan Monnier
2020-06-05  0:58     ` Paul Eggert
2020-06-05  9:27       ` Pip Cet
2020-06-05 10:51     ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-06-05 12:46       ` Pip Cet
2020-06-05 13:51         ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-06-05 14:31           ` Pip Cet
2020-06-05 15:48             ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-06-05 18:17         ` Paul Eggert
2020-06-06  8:18           ` Pip Cet
2020-06-06 16:57             ` Drew Adams
2020-06-06 17:57               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-06-06 19:00                 ` Pip Cet
2020-06-06 19:49                   ` Paul Eggert
2020-06-06 20:23                     ` Drew Adams
2020-06-07  9:14                     ` Pip Cet
2020-06-06 22:14                   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-06-07  1:40                     ` Paul Eggert
2020-06-07 15:24                       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-06-07 23:42                         ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2020-06-07  9:31                     ` Pip Cet
2020-06-06 20:19                 ` Drew Adams
2020-06-06 17:54             ` Paul Eggert
2020-06-06 19:41               ` Pip Cet
2020-06-06 20:15                 ` Paul Eggert
2020-06-07  9:21                   ` Pip Cet
2020-06-07 23:37                     ` Paul Eggert
2020-06-06 20:11               ` Drew Adams
2020-06-06 22:16                 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-06-06 23:27                   ` Drew Adams
2020-06-05 13:02       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-06-05 13:50         ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-06-06 19:09         ` Paul Eggert
2020-06-06 20:19           ` Drew Adams

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