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: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:16:19 -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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258464650 27530 80.91.229.12 (17 Nov 2009 13:30:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:30:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Kastrup , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 17 14:30:43 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 1NAO8g-0006Sc-C9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:30:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58487 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NAO8f-0004wB-Kd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:30:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NANv3-0000Ho-O2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:16:29 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NANuy-0000FA-F0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:16:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48934 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NANuy-0000F4-BA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:16:24 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:59946 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NANuv-00018B-FC; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:16:21 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApsEABsxAkvO+II8/2dsb2JhbACBS9UahDsEiT4 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,758,1249272000"; d="scan'208";a="49529028" Original-Received: from 206-248-130-60.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.130.60]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 17 Nov 2009 08:16:20 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 99D4B8173; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:16:19 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:57:08 -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:117088 Archived-At: > I am skeptical that we have everything in place that is required to > properly support > (unintern nil) > (unintern t) > We should make them give errors -- that's much easier than > making them "work". There's no reason they should be allowed. Rather I think there's no reason to spend any time either making them work or making them signal an error. Stefan