Re: Mutating existing persistent data

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Reader macros are one of the features of Common Lisp that are highly
> prone to abuse.  They also make the meaning of simple programs confusing
> to the human eye.
>
> It would be a shame for a basic feature of Emacs Lisp to use such a
> facility.

I'm just saying we could have gone even more magical.  Generalised
variables, on the other hand, are pretty vanilla.

> Personally, I never saw the benefit of generalized variables in Emacs
> Lisp.  I think it would be more practical to stick with the tried and
> true method of set and get pairs.

Well, I disagree.

> What if Emacs isn't built with sqlite3 support?  Is there a fall back in
> place for that situation?

Yes, it just stores the data in the object, and nothing happens on disk.
(The same happens when you start emacs with -Q, natch.)

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