From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Modifying literal lists in Emacs lisp?
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:57:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-65F902.11572813062014@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.3583.1402673918.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
In article <mailman.3583.1402673918.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Nicolas Petton <petton.nicolas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In Common Lisp one should not modify literal lists because of possible
> shared conses.
>
> I was wondering if it is the same in Emacs Lisp, but I couldn't find
> anything in the documentattion.
Yes, you should not do it for the exact same reason. There have been
many threads in the Emacs newsgroups about the failures that result.
I don't know if it's documented (I've been searching and can't find it
either), but it works essentially the same way as in CL.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
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[not found] <mailman.3583.1402673918.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-13 15:57 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2014-06-13 18:59 ` Modifying literal lists in Emacs lisp? Stefan Monnier
2014-06-13 10:14 Nicolas Petton
2014-06-13 16:01 ` Drew Adams
2014-06-13 20:13 ` Nicolas Richard
2014-06-13 22:07 ` Nicolas Petton
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