From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: defconst
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 21:25:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1CUySw-0004CE-SC@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200411180021.iAI0LBK00437@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Wed, 17 Nov 2004 18:21:11 -0600 (CST))
I believe it would be better if `defconst' behaved like `defconstant'
in CLISP: throw an error if the user or a program tries to change the
value through anything else but a second defconst.
That is a drastic change, and I see no need for it. Practically
speaking, nothing disastrous happens if you change it with setq.
There is no need to make it an error. So I will not change this.
Please don't suggest such major changes now. Our goal now is to aim
for a release.
Please let's direct effort at checking the documentation and fixing
the bugs listed in FOR-RELEASE, so we can have a release.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-19 2:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-18 0:21 defconst Luc Teirlinck
2004-11-18 0:36 ` defconst Drew Adams
2004-11-18 1:17 ` defconst Stefan
2004-11-19 2:25 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2004-11-20 1:25 ` defconst Luc Teirlinck
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-11-14 18:33 defconst Luc Teirlinck
2004-11-15 14:00 ` defconst Richard Stallman
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