From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2018 10:44:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV--tJ=NmxHfEHvrxP0yBPM=vprsnjeyqWfNNRMMsKTYpbQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83in3fqj9c.fsf@gnu.org>
On 9 September 2018 at 02:26, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Or we could define it to replace a substring:
>>
>> (setq s (srep s from to newsubstring))
>
> Why not have aset do this under the hood? Then we won't need to ask
> people to change code that worked for decades.
It's unclear what you mean by that, the semantics of aset is to modify
the original string, changing that would surely break code that worked
for decades.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-09 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-07 19:52 `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes Stefan Monnier
2018-09-07 21:33 ` Johan Bockgård
2018-09-07 23:12 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-07 23:41 ` John Wiegley
2018-09-08 5:17 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-08 6:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 2:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-08 2:17 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-08 6:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 18:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-08 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 18:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-08 20:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 22:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-09 5:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-10 0:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-09 6:07 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-09 6:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-09 14:44 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2018-09-09 15:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-09 16:27 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-10 5:48 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-10 3:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-10-16 21:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-10 5:47 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-10 5:48 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-10 3:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-08 6:03 ` Helmut Eller
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