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bug#52290: 28.0.90; Undocumented generalized variables
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
bug#52290: 28.0.90; Undocumented generalized variables |
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Sun, 05 Dec 2021 23:33:08 -0500 |
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I think people have extended setf in questionable ways,
allowing arithmetic and comparisons in the first argument.
I think I understand what (setq (logand x 7) NNN) does, but I think it
pushes the meaning of setf in a way that we should refrain from.
You could equally well define (setq (+ x 5) NNN), but why support
either of them?
What about (setq (+ x y) NNN) -- should that set x, or y?
Or both? It could do (setq x 0 y NNN), or (setq x NNN y 0),
or various other things.
I don't think that eq in the first argument is coherent at all.
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- bug#52290: 28.0.90; Undocumented generalized variables, Phil Sainty, 2021/12/04
- bug#52290: 28.0.90; Undocumented generalized variables, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/12/04
- bug#52290: 28.0.90; Undocumented generalized variables, Michael Heerdegen, 2021/12/04
- bug#52290: 28.0.90; Undocumented generalized variables, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/12/04
- bug#52290: 28.0.90; Undocumented generalized variables, Michael Heerdegen, 2021/12/04
- bug#52290: 28.0.90; Undocumented generalized variables, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/12/04
- bug#52290: 28.0.90; Undocumented generalized variables, Michael Heerdegen, 2021/12/05
- bug#52290: 28.0.90; Undocumented generalized variables, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/12/05
bug#52290: 28.0.90; Undocumented generalized variables, Phil Sainty, 2021/12/04
bug#52290: 28.0.90; Undocumented generalized variables,
Richard Stallman <=