From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why does using aset sometimes output raw bytes? Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 08:56:51 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87h8fmohmo.fsf@gmx.net> <871s6qobvm.fsf@gmx.net> <83lg4y30vz.fsf@gnu.org> <83in013orr.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1544450132 23763 195.159.176.226 (10 Dec 2018 13:55:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 13:55:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 10 14:55:28 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gWM1u-00064R-QM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2018 14:55:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32952 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gWM41-00007g-D6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2018 08:57:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45613) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gWM3b-00007W-4N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2018 08:57:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gWM3T-000296-Ej for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2018 08:57:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=58370 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gWM3R-00027i-Ni for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2018 08:57:03 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gWM1G-0005MO-Pa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2018 14:54:46 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:DUkcFy59vx/nBunDdkNslXUDEUs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118957 Archived-At: > 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