From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: t and nil in pure memory? Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:52:29 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200911112023.nABKNrH6023933@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87pr7oxieq.fsf@freebits.de> <200911130524.nAD5O5uu009102@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87my2nsfh3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <877htqswq0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258559573 22465 80.91.229.12 (18 Nov 2009 15:52:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:52:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 18 16:52:45 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NAmpn-0004Lb-1Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:52:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34187 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NAmpm-00046P-IS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:52:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NAmpi-000463-8M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:52:38 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NAmpd-00044k-S1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:52:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57579 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NAmpd-00044a-P0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:52:33 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:14822 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NAmpa-0006rG-2e; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:52:30 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: As4EAO+mA0vO+II8/2dsb2JhbACBTdUYhDsEiVc X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,765,1249272000"; d="scan'208";a="49598300" Original-Received: from 206-248-130-60.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.130.60]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 18 Nov 2009 10:52:29 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 4E4FC859F; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:52:29 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:11:39 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:117185 Archived-At: > I will spend the time to make unintern give an error for t and nil. Please don't. It's not just your time, it's the CPU time of everyone. There are *many* ways for the user to shoot herself in the foot and make her Emacs session completely unusable. We're not going to start and try and catch every one of them. It's a waste of everyone's time and energy. Stefan