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bug#17507: Documentation for `add-text-property' and relatives
From: |
Eli Barzilay |
Subject: |
bug#17507: Documentation for `add-text-property' and relatives |
Date: |
Fri, 16 Aug 2019 04:35:35 +0300 |
In lisps you can mutate properties of an object, but you cannot change
the pointer itself. I think that another way to clarify it would be
to say that "foo" is actually shorthand for #("foo") but the #() is
omitted for brevity. But at this point this is subjective enough to
be ignorable...
On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 5:30 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > From: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>
> > Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 06:41:17 +0300
> > Cc: 17507@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > Um... Note that I referred *explicitly* to other lisps and schemes.
> > The assumption that I'm talking about would hold for people who are
> > used to CL too: a string is indeed more than just a pointer bytes with
> > a NUL at the end, yet there is no way to change a *property* of "foo"
> > and end up with #("foo" stuff...).
>
> Can you explain in more detail what did you think was missing from the
> manual? I've read the original report, and I admit I didn't
> understand what was the essence of your difficulty.
>
> Thanks.
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- bug#17507: Documentation for `add-text-property' and relatives, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/08/14
- bug#17507: Documentation for `add-text-property' and relatives, Eli Barzilay, 2019/08/14
- bug#17507: Documentation for `add-text-property' and relatives, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/08/15
- bug#17507: Documentation for `add-text-property' and relatives, Eli Barzilay, 2019/08/16
- bug#17507: Documentation for `add-text-property' and relatives, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/08/17
- bug#17507: Documentation for `add-text-property' and relatives, Eli Barzilay, 2019/08/17
- bug#17507: Documentation for `add-text-property' and relatives, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/08/17
bug#17507: Documentation for `add-text-property' and relatives, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/08/15