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bug#7146: (make-symbol "") issues
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MON KEY |
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bug#7146: (make-symbol "") issues |
Date: |
Sun, 3 Oct 2010 19:48:51 -0400 |
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> wrote:
> MON KEY <monkey@sandpframing.com> writes:
>
>> So, IIUC is the rationale for doing this is that there aren't really
>> any particularly good reasons to intern the empty string given that
>> the reader is incapable of reading it correctly?
>
> The only reason is that it can lead to a crash.
So the potential for a crashed Emacs is rationale enough, whereas
potential for an inexplicably hung and thoroughly corrupted Emacs is
just grist for the mill?
> There are plenty of
> reasons to shoot yourself in the foot in Lisp in you're determined to do
And a good deal of these apply equally even for the undetermined and
un-intentioned, not to mention the ill-intentioned.
> so; it's not profitable to address them unless a real world problem
> surfaces.
>
OK.
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/s_P\
- bug#7146: (make-symbol "") issues, (continued)
- bug#7146: (make-symbol "") issues, Chong Yidong, 2010/10/02
- bug#7146: (make-symbol "") issues, Frank, 2010/10/03
- bug#7146: (make-symbol "") issues, Chong Yidong, 2010/10/03
- bug#7146: (make-symbol "") issues, Frank, 2010/10/03
- bug#7146: (make-symbol "") issues, Juanma Barranquero, 2010/10/03
- bug#7146: (make-symbol "") issues, Johan Bockgård, 2010/10/03
- bug#7146: (make-symbol "") issues, Chong Yidong, 2010/10/03
- bug#7146: (make-symbol "") issues, Stefan Monnier, 2010/10/03
bug#7146: (make-symbol "") issues, MON KEY, 2010/10/03