Re: Buffer names are sometimes read-only objects in daemonized emacs

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

>>> No no, you got me wrong.  I just meant the docstring of `buffer-name'
>>> (and any other function that returns some thing whose modification would
>>> have undesired, non-obvious side-effects) should explicitly state that
>>> modifying that returned string will indeed modify the buffer name.
>> Rather, `aset' should warn that modifying strings is evil and dangerous.
> Should `put-text-property' do that too?

Probably, but that will break a lot more packages (removing the "aset on
strings" feature breaks fairly few packages, surprisingly enough).


        Stefan