From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problems with Emacs 28
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2020 13:13:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877drea4gb.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3cec75b0-410b-40c7-97c3-d04667c4c04d@default
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> If users can't depend on it, to let them know
> if a function might modify data destructively,
> then it can mislead, and so be even more
> "dangerous". Now, we really need a giant sign
> saying that you can't rely on a destructive
> function's name having a suffix of `!'.
BTW, we use "destructive" most of the time to denote "might do anything
with the original value" (from "destroy). Vs. here the ! means
"modifies in place" (you can rely on the value being present in the
original place).
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-25 12:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-23 16:50 problems with Emacs 28 Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-23 17:33 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-23 18:02 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-23 18:00 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-24 1:55 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-24 12:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-24 12:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-24 9:46 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-10-24 17:00 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-24 19:26 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-10-24 22:11 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-24 22:08 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-25 12:13 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2020-10-25 14:15 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-27 0:29 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-27 10:22 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-10-28 16:21 ` Jens C. Jensen
2020-10-28 17:07 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-28 17:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-31 18:26 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-01 13:51 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-23 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 18:22 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-23 18:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-24 0:13 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-23 19:09 ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-24 0:14 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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