Re: Warnings about keymaps

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>>> (are you saying users should not add key bindings to
>>> log-edit-mode-map, for example?).
>> That's unrelated: defconst only says that the variable's binding won't
>> change, not that the object it is bound to is immutable.
> I don't understand that distinction.

It's the same distinction that makes it possible for a function to
modify an array passed as argument in C, even though arguments are
passed "by value" (i.e. it receives a copy of the pointer to the array,
so it can't change which array is pointed, but it can modify the
array's contents).


        Stefan