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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#40693: 28.0.50; json-encode-alist changes alist |
Date: | Sun, 19 Apr 2020 19:55:47 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.7.0 |
On 4/19/20 5:57 PM, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
How about if we change "Modifying a constant symbol signals an error..." to "Changing a self-evaluating symbol's value signals an error..."?Yes, better (though I would rather say "Trying to..." or "Attempting to..." - Emacs doesn't let you do this, i.e. you get the error before it's too late).
OK, I put it in with "Trying to". Also, I changed "self-evaluating symbol" to "Constant variable" because the latter class includes the former, and also includes a few variables like most-positive-fixnum that are not self-evaluating but still cannot be modified.
Who came up with the term "Constant variable", anyway? They must have had an odd sense of humor.
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