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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "wilnerthomas@tutanota.com" <wilnerthomas@tutanota.com>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	"'Help-Gnu-Emacs (help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)'"
	<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : Re: Function that changes value of a variable
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 14:21:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR10MB54884330031BE65290C5EEE5F3719@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <NA1gpje--3-2@tutanota.com>

> You do not modify the variable value when the input fall outside the
> categories (numeric, t and nil).  Is that because we do not want to wreck
> values can could well be other elisp structures (e.g. strings, lists,
> symbols).
> Am I correct?

I was just trying to guess the behavior _you_ want.
Nothing more than that.


      reply	other threads:[~2022-08-22 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-21  0:54 Function that changes value of a variable wilnerthomas--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-08-21  2:04 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-08-21  2:40 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-08-21  3:31   ` wilnerthomas--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-08-21 13:47     ` [External] : " Drew Adams
     [not found]     ` <SJ0PR10MB5488C4F9BF7E4F324B57C6F3F36E9@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com-NA-eKDt----2>
2022-08-21 23:18       ` wilnerthomas--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-08-22 14:21         ` Drew Adams [this message]

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