Re: Should records be able to mimic primitive types?

[Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>]

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> schrieb am Sa., 10. Juni 2017 um 14:44 Uhr:

> > From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 11:39:40 +0000
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >
> > Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> schrieb am Mo., 1. Mai 2017
> um 14:03 Uhr:
> >
> >  we only bother to
> >  try and detect those that are serious (e.g. could cause a memory
> >  corruption) or frequent/common.
> >
> > As said in another thread, I disagree with that principle.
>
> It's okay to disagree, but these have been the principles underlying
> Emacs development since about forever, so please try to be consistent
> with them as long as they are followed.  I don't think a case for
> making Emacs Lisp a more restricted development environment than it is
> now will gain many supporters.  E.g., even the move to make characters
> a special data type separate from integers, something the XEmacs
> actually did, was rejected by Emacs.
>

That's not my intention. What I have in mind is to raise more signals in
cases where users use Emacs functions incorrectly instead of employing
unspecified behavior.

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