From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#55156: [PATCH] eval.c: New functions `defvar-f` and `defconst-f` Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 23:10:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34644"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 55156@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 29 05:11:13 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nkH2H-0008ms-Ew for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2022 05:11:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57586 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nkH2F-0007IZ-Pr for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2022 23:11:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44754) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nkH27-0007HQ-K1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2022 23:11:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:56508) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nkH27-0007go-Ad for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2022 23:11:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nkH27-0003mE-5P for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2022 23:11:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 03:11:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 55156 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 55156-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B55156.165120185114487 (code B ref 55156); Fri, 29 Apr 2022 03:11:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 55156) by debbugs.gnu.org; 29 Apr 2022 03:10:51 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50403 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nkH1v-0003lW-9p for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2022 23:10:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:51288) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nkH1r-0003kw-OC for 55156@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2022 23:10:48 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:38776) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nkH1m-0007bA-IP; Thu, 28 Apr 2022 23:10:42 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=ZPxVbzDf9XQwzYLHaTIvtmKWSwz99NO0YTDgTF9k9hE=; b=QeLhBikdnkY/ 3Cdgac1biobaKqK0glHkhc13JztBxt+e/E+A6B4BjpUgQii/HEiJ3dRtFoZFM/joghZzD3XdecxWp g1vWfu6D6kKTynCe4THfmXUcwDvoui+V8K4UV+ALYRDAcT95wOMYhZnZ1TUQS19hfQOipZZwWpOJ2 WQfje+g63RgvRbdnClaC2ZihCAEwxkILWCVrt30ZQx6m/sXiHEU8vj9c5YE5b/uYDzhHkIK8WUE7I wzwpiaFk2PVMLEi/h/3VMnPNVvSxr9e9pFoVB41FSR0dRWXmATckSddrfszlqFyV6hCNaP89MqDPf casQahUAZ58W3EDJoGFVOw==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nkH1m-0001lO-9E; Thu, 28 Apr 2022 23:10:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:230923 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > This sounds scary, but the reality is less so: while the behavior of > the special form obeyed its doc in this respect, the behavior of the > convoluted code generated by the byte-compiler did not(!) and always > evaluated the part anyway. So this patch also aligns the two > semantics to provide the same behavior. I have a feeling that that discrepancy will cause real trouble some day. However, fixing it can cause trouble too. I think this calls for real thought. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)