bug#16752: 24.3.50; pp-to-string deactivates mark

[Helmut Eller]

On Fri, Feb 14 2014, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 10:46:08 +0100
>> 
>> Evaluating this expression returns:
>> 
>> (list deactivate-mark
>>       (pp-to-string '1)
>>       deactivate-mark)
>> 
>> returns (nil "1" t).  Deactivating the mark is a surprising and
>> unnecessary side effect.
>
> _Any_ change to _any_ buffer will set deactivate-mark, which is a
> global variable.

What has that do to with pp-to-string?  I didn't ask for _any_ change to
_any_ buffer.

Helmut