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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is it ok to sort a list of overlays destructively?
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 18:30:49 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83im0trvbq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YQLFMhabWpUq1CXS@scrozzle> (2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com)

> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 08:11:46 -0700
> From: 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com
> 
> > > I am not sure if such a statement exists in any of the manuals. Should
> > > it not be stated explicitly somewhere?
> > 
> > I don't think it should be, no.  It's pretty much obvious, IMO.
> 
> I'm not disagreeing, but why is it obvious?

Because anything else is a bug, for the same reason that you
rightfully expect Emacs not to crash when some Lisp program does
something silly.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-29 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-27  5:22 Is it ok to sort a list of overlays destructively? Marcin Borkowski
2021-07-27  9:40 ` tomas
2021-07-27 10:07   ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-07-27 13:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-27 20:14   ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-07-28  2:25     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-28  6:06       ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-07-28 11:44         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-29 11:34           ` John Yates
2021-07-29 12:33             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-29 15:11               ` 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
2021-07-29 15:30                 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-07-29 16:20                   ` 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
2021-07-29 16:53                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-30 19:27               ` Marcin Borkowski

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