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Re: Strange incf behavior in Emacs 22. Intentional?


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Strange incf behavior in Emacs 22. Intentional?
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:05:23 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux)

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

>> Because immediate literal values such as '(1 2) are conceptually part of the
>> code rather than part of the data, so setcar on them will change program
>> code which is against my religion.
>>
>> Of course, this might be considered moot since my religion also
>> opposes setcar (and aset on strings).
>
>
> All religions (as well as political parties) have and should have
> their contradictions. That is life.
>
> I would say that the first part, changing '(1 2), is very
> confusing. Consider debugging for example.

"Doctor, it hurts when I do this."  "Don't do this then".

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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