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bug#43557: 28.0.50; Please document which objects are mutable and which


From: Dmitry Gutov
Subject: bug#43557: 28.0.50; Please document which objects are mutable and which are not
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2021 16:26:02 +0300
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Hi Stefan,

On 03.06.2021 17:41, Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors wrote:
Mutability says whether it is*possible*, rather than whether it's
*allowed*.  Most (all?) cons cells are mutable, but it is strongly
recommended to refrain from mutating most cons cells (because it
can/will have unexpected consequences because that same cons cell is
also used elsewhere).

See bug#40671 (and the lengthy argument in there) to know how this term in the Emacs manual came to mean something else than it usually means.





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