From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: defconst risky-local Date: Mon, 06 May 2019 20:51:43 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87r2anzfbk.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="245236"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 07 02:59:09 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hNoRo-0011b6-D0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 May 2019 02:59:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36165 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hNoRn-0006zs-B8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 May 2019 20:59:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:39107) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hNoNs-0004MC-Nw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 May 2019 20:55:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hNoNr-0007IP-PV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 May 2019 20:55:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=43410 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hNoNr-0007HN-Id for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 May 2019 20:55:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hNoNp-000xc5-N5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 May 2019 02:55:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:q9mSF0NLJkS/WFi5GCh00GPiNUA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:236220 Archived-At: >> @@ -827,19 +839,12 @@ usage: (defconst SYMBOL INITVALUE [DOCSTRING]) */) >> - Fset_default (sym, tem); >> - Fput (sym, Qrisky_local_variable, Qt); >> + Fset_default (sym, tem); /* FIXME: set-default-toplevel-value? */ >> + Fput (sym, Qrisky_local_variable, Qt); /* FIXME: Why? */ > I would guess the risky-local-variable thing is because defconst > variables would generally not be expected to be changed, file-locally > or otherwise (though nothing stops it from happening). Sounds like a good guess, but I wonder if someone can confirm that this was indeed the reason. Stefan