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.devel Subject: Re: scratch/comp-static-data 5aa3db2f11: comp: Add support for compiling elisp constants into static data. Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 23:32:54 -0500 Message-ID: References: <166844679660.19180.3470364122428955894@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <20221114172637.78215C0E4C7@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <871qq5hxf9.fsf@yahoo.com> 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="19010"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, vibhavp@gmail.com To: Andrea Corallo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 17 05:33:51 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1ovWb0-0004jN-PY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 05:33:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ovWa9-00006S-DS; Wed, 16 Nov 2022 23:32:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ovWa7-00006H-G8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2022 23:32:55 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ovWa7-0001qT-54; Wed, 16 Nov 2022 23:32:55 -0500 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=8GNLJE3k4kDcNfuvQGmKT7yidcVTnFAspXWrQrooztw=; b=mt6Xv9+EUrSN K/vIQLJC6eE2wmONSSX5aV5VBgvqTppfbxYW29iRKfrsCQQ/uxLjDvSbcoKhxIcp8J0Sso2c/m1mW VvwQccWq3AfAJw9MpvjV05cl0DfEU0UH+ceaSN1mpgV2amFiSbvYNNtjy5vG1EZkYi/JxYwBCH6ni YLNfQEF+BLjBFqj4fHYIylVm7fez+Rh5TdBHHCrDhL4z3q6uGp2r/Ucq1TfWuUwEciKJpKolmPzzw SfkNxsz+iKwPLmR4UClf1FOwmi5YzvH7ub3Rk7P+S4zkBJCp9vJ/SuOmVSZJ3LQGIuf8wLKjOSmXf zxMLvWud8yMnpJQktSUBFA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ovWa6-0001gm-TP; Wed, 16 Nov 2022 23:32:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Andrea Corallo on Tue, 15 Nov 2022 09:06:14 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:300003 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. ]]] I can't find previous discussion of this, but if the idea is to make Emacs crash if you try to set a "constant" symbol, I think it is a bad idea. The chance of breaking something is very high, and there is little to gain. -- 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)