From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 31395511: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Don=E2=80=99t?= attempt to modify constant strings" Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2020 00:06:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: <871rmvn7ge.fsf@gmail.com> <87lfl36abx.fsf@gmail.com> <1abe5965-b48e-6dee-1516-c5c233f09d01@cs.ucla.edu> <873679lel3.fsf@gmail.com> <87d06dje3d.fsf@gmail.com> <58642244-da07-c96d-21d5-d7d46714678d@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="90231"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, joaotavora@gmail.com, pipcet@gmail.com, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 06 06:07:00 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jhQ6l-000NMZ-PM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2020 06:06:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60256 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jhQ6k-0000Eh-Ro for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2020 00:06:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60082) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jhQ6G-0008Cy-LW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2020 00:06:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54989) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jhQ6F-0005Tb-JG; Sat, 06 Jun 2020 00:06:27 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jhQ67-00041R-Ez; Sat, 06 Jun 2020 00:06:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <58642244-da07-c96d-21d5-d7d46714678d@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Fri, 5 Jun 2020 18:43:05 -0700) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:251930 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Anyway, Elisp has behaved compatibly with Common Lisp for some time, and it > works well in practice. I doubt whether it'd be a good idea to try to change > Elisp to require each string literal "unique", whatever that turns out to mean. I agree. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)