From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 01:47:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1fzF32-00034L-Su@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV--tJ=NmxHfEHvrxP0yBPM=vprsnjeyqWfNNRMMsKTYpbQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Noam Postavsky on Sun, 9 Sep 2018 10:44:25 -0400)
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> >> Or we could define it to replace a substring:
> >>
> >> (setq s (srep s from to newsubstring))
> >
> > Why not have aset do this under the hood? Then we won't need to ask
> > people to change code that worked for decades.
> It's unclear what you mean by that, the semantics of aset is to modify
> the original string, changing that would surely break code that worked
> for decades.
I propose new functions sset and srep.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-10 5:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-07 19:52 `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes Stefan Monnier
2018-09-07 21:33 ` Johan Bockgård
2018-09-07 23:12 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-07 23:41 ` John Wiegley
2018-09-08 5:17 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-08 6:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 2:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-08 2:17 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-08 6:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 18:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-08 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 18:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-08 20:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 22:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-09 5:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-10 0:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-09 6:07 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-09 6:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-09 14:44 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-09 15:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-09 16:27 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-10 5:48 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-10 3:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-10-16 21:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-10 5:47 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2018-09-10 5:48 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-10 3:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-08 6:03 ` Helmut Eller
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