Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes

[Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>]

 Ar an naoiú lá de mí Bealtaine, scríobh Eli Zaretskii: 

 > >  > As far as I know, the GCPRO convention for arguments is mostly the
 > >  > following:
 > >  > 
 > >  > GCPRO args you pass to functions iff those functions can GC and you
 > >  > need to use the arg after the function returns.
 > > 
 > > Okay. Do you know of any document detailing that?
 > 
 > Does the excerpt below from the Lisp manual answer your concerns?

It read ambiguously to me. “Any Lisp object that you intend to refer to
again” could be one that you intend to refer to in the bodies of the
functions you call.

 > > No-one followed up to my reference to what Ben Wing writes on the
 > > subject.
 > 
 > AFAIU, he is wrong, or at least inaccurate.  

He’s not wrong, he’s describing conventions within XEmacs, and XEmacs source
code does follow those conventions. My question was, are those conventions
followed in GNU Emacs? You, and Stefan are telling me they’re not. Okay,
you’ve answered my question, thank you.

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Aidan Kehoe, http://www.parhasard.net/