From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why does using aset sometimes output raw bytes?
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 08:56:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8t0x32s9.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83in013orr.fsf@gnu.org
> I'm not sure the "by side effect" part is an important distinction for
> users,
From a language semantics point of view, it is a major difference.
In practice for users it's probably a minor detail, admittedly: code
that bumps into this corner case will likely suffer from so many other
corner case problems that this one may end up drowned in the noise.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-10 13:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-09 15:16 Why does using aset sometimes output raw bytes? Stephen Berman
2018-12-09 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-09 15:46 ` Stephen Berman
2018-12-09 15:56 ` Stephen Berman
2018-12-09 17:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-09 17:32 ` Stephen Berman
2018-12-09 17:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-09 18:50 ` Stephen Berman
2018-12-09 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-09 17:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-12-09 17:20 ` Stephen Berman
2018-12-09 19:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-12-09 20:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-09 21:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-12-10 5:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-10 13:56 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-12-09 20:43 ` Stephen Berman
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