Re: Mutating existing persistent data

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2021 03:53:19 +0100
> Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>, Qiantan Hong <qhong@mit.edu>,
>  "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
>  Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>, John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
> 
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> 
> > You either need the application to provide some atomicity/transaction
> > boundary information, or you need the application to send changes as
> > changes rather than as the resulting state (i.e. send "increment x by 2"
> > rather than "x is now 23").
> 
> So I'm now starting to type in the stuff to make persistent values, and
> the name `persistent-value' is of course already taken (by something in
> ieieo that I can't even find, as usual).
> 
> So here's some synonyms.  Er...  opinions?

Maybe we don't need to give up so easily.  We could use something like
sqlite-persistent-value or db-persistent-value.  eieio itself has
several FOO-persistent-BAR things, so why can't we have one more
variety?