From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>, rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2018 23:03:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwva7oqdphq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83d0tmr97o.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 09 Sep 2018 18:17:47 +0300")
> I meant to make aset cons a new string when it turns out the original
> one's data is too small to include the new contents.
`aset` is documented to return NEWELT, so what could it do with the
newly cons'd string?
We'd have to change `aset` so it returns this newly cons'd string, but
that would also be a backward incompatible change. Better introduce
a new function `sset` for it.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-10 3:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-07 19:52 `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes Stefan Monnier
2018-09-07 21:33 ` Johan Bockgård
2018-09-07 23:12 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-07 23:41 ` John Wiegley
2018-09-08 5:17 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-08 6:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 2:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-08 2:17 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-08 6:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 18:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-08 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 18:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-08 20:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 22:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-09 5:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-10 0:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-09 6:07 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-09 6:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-09 14:44 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-09 15:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-09 16:27 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-10 5:48 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-10 3:03 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-10-16 21:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-10 5:47 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-10 5:48 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-10 3:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-08 6:03 ` Helmut Eller
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