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From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `append' vs. `nconc'
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 14:31:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bn95tohz.fsf@debian.uxu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87bn95ddf2.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com

"Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
writes:

> list returns a fresh list. ` doesn't. ` may return
> a structure that shares literal substructures
> with others.

I have lots of ' and ` and instead of examining all
those cases I think it is easier to look for the
mutators, and see if ' or ` are used in
their vicinity.

I found this page:

    http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DestructiveOperations

> It's simplier to forget about set and setq, and
> always use setf.

Oh, no! I have 207 `setq' in my initialization!

> That frees two neurons to think about other things.

I think we have spent too much time together lately:
now we are starting to *think* the same way!

-- 
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573




  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-01 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-28 16:35 Error: Setting the shell in sh-mode via a local variable does not work Johannes Kastl
2015-12-29  1:32 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-12-29 18:33   ` Johannes Kastl
2015-12-30 14:53     ` Emanuel Berg
2015-12-30 15:15       ` Robert Thorpe
2015-12-30 15:30         ` Emanuel Berg
2015-12-30 17:42         ` Johannes Kastl
2015-12-30 15:19   ` Teemu Likonen
2015-12-30 15:41     ` `append' vs. `nconc' (was: Re: Error: Setting the shell in sh-mode via a local variable does not work) Emanuel Berg
2015-12-30 16:37       ` `append' vs. `nconc' Teemu Likonen
2015-12-31  3:37         ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]         ` <mailman.1400.1451533083.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-12-31  3:45           ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-12-31  4:00             ` Emanuel Berg
2015-12-31  9:22               ` tomas
2015-12-31 18:48                 ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]             ` <mailman.1402.1451534421.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-12-31  5:36               ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-12-31  3:50         ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]         ` <mailman.1401.1451533833.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-12-31  5:37           ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-12-31  7:13             ` Emanuel Berg
2015-12-31  9:30               ` tomas
2015-12-31 17:56                 ` side effects, list sharing [was: `append' vs. `nconc'] Drew Adams
2015-12-31 19:00                   ` Emanuel Berg
2015-12-31 19:15                     ` Drew Adams
2016-01-01 13:20                       ` Emanuel Berg
2015-12-31 18:51                 ` `append' vs. `nconc' Emanuel Berg
     [not found]                 ` <mailman.1440.1451588113.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-01  2:53                   ` Barry Margolin
2016-01-01 13:26                     ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]             ` <mailman.1406.1451546036.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-12-31  8:54               ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-12-31  7:31           ` Teemu Likonen
2015-12-31 18:35             ` Emanuel Berg
2015-12-31 20:04               ` Teemu Likonen
2016-01-01 13:23                 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-01-01 14:02                   ` Teemu Likonen
2016-01-01 18:31                     ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]             ` <mailman.1438.1451586967.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-01  6:25               ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2016-01-01 13:31                 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2016-01-01 15:04                   ` Drew Adams
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1353.1451490125.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-12-30 16:18       ` Pascal J. Bourguignon

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