From: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Is it ok to sort a list of overlays destructively?
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 07:34:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJnXXojhovYoWEHqWi_eK0fiUArbHA=nY4rB_WR0FT82yGOARg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83sfzyu0he.fsf@gnu.org>
On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 7:44 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Basically, you should assume that Emacs protects itself where that is
> needed, so if it handed you a list or some other data, and nothing in
> the doc string warns you against doing something with that data, you
> are free to do that, and if that causes unexpected results, there's
> either a documentation bug or a code bug that needs to be fixed.
I am not sure if such a statement exists in any of the manuals. Should
it not be stated explicitly somewhere?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-29 11:34 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 [this message]
2021-07-29 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-29 15:11 ` 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
2021-07-29 15:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-29 16:20 ` 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
2021-07-29 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-30 19:27 ` Marcin Borkowski
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