From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: t and nil in pure memory? Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:19:47 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200911112023.nABKNrH6023933@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87pr7oxieq.fsf@freebits.de> <200911130524.nAD5O5uu009102@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87my2nsfh3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <877htqswq0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <4B043487.4000102@censorshipresearch.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258568743 25412 80.91.229.12 (18 Nov 2009 18:25:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:25:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 18 19:25:35 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NApDY-0001Mo-MJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:25:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50567 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NApDY-0007Do-5a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:25:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NAp8F-0002QT-VA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:19:56 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NAp8B-0002NF-41 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:19:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50244 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NAp8A-0002N0-Qh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:19:50 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:58816 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NAp88-00076n-0r; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:19:48 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: As4EACfJA0vO+II8/2dsb2JhbACBTdVnhDsEiVc X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,766,1249272000"; d="scan'208";a="49610084" Original-Received: from 206-248-130-60.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.130.60]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 18 Nov 2009 13:19:47 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 24FAA8774; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:19:47 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <4B043487.4000102@censorshipresearch.org> (Daniel Colascione's message of "Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:53:11 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:117195 Archived-At: >>> I will spend the time to make unintern give an error for t and nil. >> Please don't. It's not just your time, it's the CPU time of everyone. >> There are *many* ways for the user to shoot herself in the foot and make >> her Emacs session completely unusable. We're not going to start and try >> and catch every one of them. It's a waste of everyone's time and energy. > unintern isn't exactly on the fast path. I don't care if it is. It's extra code to compile, load, run, and maintain, and no extra feature for the user. I.e. pure bloat. Stefan