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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 65051@debbugs.gnu.org, acm@muc.de
Subject: bug#65051: internal_equal manipulates symbols with position without checking symbols-with-pos-enabled.
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2023 09:10:15 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83msywg5a0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv5y5ku8u2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)

> Cc: 65051@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2023 01:36:08 -0400
> From:  Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> +A @dfn{symbol with position} is a pair of a symbol, the @dfn{bare symbol},
> +together with an unsigned integer called the @dfn{position}.
> +They cannot themselves have entries in obarrays (contrary to their
> +bare symbols; @pxref{Creating Symbols}).

That "They" which begins the last sentence doesn't make clear who are
"they".  You want to say "Symbols with position" instead -- this is
repetition, but in this case it is actually needed.

>  For most purposes, when the flag variable
>  @code{symbols-with-pos-enabled} is non-@code{nil}, symbols with
> -positions behave just as bare symbols do.  For example, @samp{(eq
> -#<symbol foo at 12345> foo)} has a value @code{t} when that variable
> -is set (but @code{nil} when it isn't set).  Most of the time in Emacs this
> -variable is @code{nil}, but the byte compiler binds it to @code{t}
> -when it runs.
> +positions behave just as their bare symbols would.  For example,
   ^^^^^^^^^
"position", singular.

Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-12  6:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-04 14:00 bug#65051: internal_equal manipulates symbols with position without checking symbols-with-pos-enabled Alan Mackenzie
2023-08-04 14:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-04 14:59   ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-08-04 15:27     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-04 17:06       ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-08-04 18:01         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-05 10:45           ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-08-05 10:57             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-05 11:52               ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-08-05 12:13                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-05 13:04                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-08-05 13:13                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-13 16:14                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-08-05 14:40 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-08-05 16:59   ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-08-05 17:02     ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-08-05 21:07   ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-08-06 13:37     ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-08-06 15:02       ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-08-07  8:58         ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-08-07  9:44           ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-08-09 18:45             ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-08-07  3:30 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-07  9:20   ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-08-08  2:56     ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-08 15:33       ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-08-10  3:28         ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-10  9:14           ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-08-10 14:28             ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-10 18:35               ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-08-12  5:36                 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-12  6:10                   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-08-12 18:46                     ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-12 19:10                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-13 15:27                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-08-12 10:41                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-08-12 18:07                     ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-13 13:52                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-08-12 21:59                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-08-11  0:51         ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-08-11 10:42           ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-08-11 11:18             ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-08-11 12:05               ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-08-11 13:19                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-08-11 14:04                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-08-11 18:15                     ` Dmitry Gutov
     [not found] ` <handler.65051.B.169115764532326.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2023-09-04 12:57   ` bug#65051: Acknowledgement (internal_equal manipulates symbols with position without checking symbols-with-pos-enabled.) Alan Mackenzie

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