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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 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.8.1 |
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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