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Re: Why does using aset sometimes output raw bytes?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Why does using aset sometimes output raw bytes?
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 08:56:51 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> I'm not sure the "by side effect" part is an important distinction for
> users,

>From a language semantics point of view, it is a major difference.
In practice for users it's probably a minor detail, admittedly: code
that bumps into this corner case will likely suffer from so many other
corner case problems that this one may end up drowned in the noise.


        Stefan




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