From: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>
To: 62117@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#62117: 29.0.60; cl-letf on a map place has side-effects
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 08:44:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875yb7vijp.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
Consider this example:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(require 'cl-lib)
(defun f (map)
(cl-letf (((map-elt map 'a) 1))
map))
(let ((map '(b 2)))
(f map)
map)
=> (b 2 a nil)
(let ((map (make-hash-table)))
(f map)
(map-length map))
=> 1
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
I would expect `f' to have no side effects, so get (b 2) and 0
respectively in the two examples.
For comparison, plist-get as a place has no side-effect:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(defun g (map)
(cl-letf (((plist-get map 'a) 1))
map))
(let ((map '(b 2)))
(g map)
map)
(b 2)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Of course it's usual to treat a nil entry and no entry as equivalent in
Lisp, but this behavior can be a problem e.g. when constructing data to
pass to other programs.
next reply other threads:[~2023-03-11 7:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-11 7:44 Augusto Stoffel [this message]
2023-03-12 0:00 ` bug#62117: 29.0.60; cl-letf on a map place has side-effects Michael Heerdegen
2023-03-12 6:09 ` Augusto Stoffel
2023-03-15 2:13 ` Michael Heerdegen
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