Re: problems with Emacs 28

[Emanuel Berg]

Michael Heerdegen wrote:

>> FWIW, I think it's a mistake for Emacs to adopt that convention
>> now, or at least it's a mistake to adopt it only partially.
>
> I think it's ok if we end with a handful of functions that are
> explicitly labeled that way to indicate they are the
> in-place-modifying counterpart of some other existing pure function
> where the return value matters. As long as "!" is rarely seen, it's
> not suggesting that Emacs uses exactly the same convention
> as scheme.

Right, good point.

But I still think it looks weird.

Maybe instead of ! one could use -d, like we do with -p rather than ?.

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