Re: Modifying literal lists in Emacs lisp?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.3583.1402673918.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Nicolas Petton <petton.nicolas@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In Common Lisp one should not modify literal lists because of possible
> shared conses.
> 
> I was wondering if it is the same in Emacs Lisp, but I couldn't find
> anything in the documentattion.

Yes, you should not do it for the exact same reason. There have been 
many threads in the Emacs newsgroups about the failures that result.

I don't know if it's documented (I've been searching and can't find it 
either), but it works essentially the same way as in CL.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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