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Re: save-excursion and the mark
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: save-excursion and the mark |
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Fri, 27 Feb 2015 18:46:21 -0500 |
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> > That's true, if it is _never_ used that way. But it is hard to verify
> > _never_, and we can expect some things to break.
> Definitely. This said, the same holds for changing the function
> slot of symbols so that they can't be unbound anymore (and use Qnil
> instead of Qunbound). Yet when I did that in 24.4 noone noticed.
save-excursion is used an awful lot.
symbol-function is used very rarely.
An incompatible change in save-excursion is much more likely
to break things than an incompatible change in symbol-function.
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