From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Which Elisp types are mutable?
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2021 22:58:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878s2kcwa4.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: SA2PR10MB4474C338EC51B09FE2B67C46F31C9@SA2PR10MB4474.namprd10.prod.outlook.com
Drew Adams wrote:
>> Hm. If you change a variable's value... does that count as
>> "mutating the symbol"? If you change the binding (e.g.
>> by entering another scope or by leaving it)?
>
> (Changing a symbol's binding, with `let' etc. is more
> complicated. I mentioned global value.)
>
> If you look at a Lisp symbol as being an object with
> properties, then yes; changing its variable value changes
> the object - its mutable state.
You can change the symbol as a practically employed instance
but not as a concept...
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-05 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-03 4:03 Which Elisp types are mutable? Marcin Borkowski
2021-06-03 12:11 ` Philipp
2021-06-05 11:22 ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-06-05 12:58 ` Philipp
2021-06-05 14:25 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-05 18:40 ` Philipp
2021-07-05 20:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-07-05 20:44 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-05 20:58 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-05 21:03 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-05 19:19 ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-06-05 20:17 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-06-05 20:36 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-06-06 1:57 ` Drew Adams
2021-07-05 18:41 ` Philipp
2021-07-05 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-05 18:55 ` tomas
2021-07-05 19:26 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-07-05 19:40 ` tomas
2021-07-05 20:03 ` Drew Adams
2021-07-05 20:12 ` tomas
2021-07-05 20:39 ` Drew Adams
2021-07-05 20:58 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
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