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bug#70784: Abolish string resizing
From: |
Po Lu |
Subject: |
bug#70784: Abolish string resizing |
Date: |
Mon, 06 May 2024 09:01:16 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> No, I didn't - you did. I said nothing about
> any enemies of Lisp, nor did I suggest that
> anyone here is an enemy of Lisp.
>
> Please stop with the hyperbole and insinuation.
> You appear to be trying to spin my position
> into something it's not.
>
> It would be a mistake, IMHO, to do away with
> mutable strings or lists in Elisp. That's my
> opinion: that would _impoverish Lisp_. The
> former (make strings immutable) is exactly the
> question raised in this thread, IIUC.
>
> It would also be unfortunate to do away with
> the use of nil as meaning false, or as the
> empty list. Again, that would _impoverish
> Lisp_. That's my opinion.
>
> Such suggestions don't jibe with Lisp; they
> would, in effect mutate Lisp away from its
> fundament. Let's not go down that road.
I agree, but alas, the dubious practice of removing time-honored
facilities for their supposed disuse, virtually on impulse, and giving
Emacs a new motto inspired by line 6186 of dispnew.c, is much in vogue
with Mattias these days.
One can only hope that calmer heads will prevail.
- bug#70784: Abolish string resizing, Mattias Engdegård, 2024/05/05
- bug#70784: Abolish string resizing, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/05/05
- bug#70784: Abolish string resizing, Mattias Engdegård, 2024/05/05
- bug#70784: Abolish string resizing, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/05/05
- bug#70784: Abolish string resizing, Drew Adams, 2024/05/05
- bug#70784: Abolish string resizing, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/05/05
- bug#70784: Abolish string resizing, Drew Adams, 2024/05/05
- bug#70784: Abolish string resizing, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/05/05
- bug#70784: Abolish string resizing, Drew Adams, 2024/05/05
- bug#70784: Abolish string resizing,
Po Lu <=
- bug#70784: Abolish string resizing, Gerd Möllmann, 2024/05/06
- bug#70784: Abolish string resizing, Richard Stallman, 2024/05/08
- bug#70784: Abolish string resizing, Richard Stallman, 2024/05/08
- bug#70784: Abolish string resizing, Drew Adams, 2024/05/08
- bug#70784: Abolish string resizing, Stefan Kangas, 2024/05/26
- bug#70784: Abolish string resizing, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/05/26
- bug#70784: Abolish string resizing, Stefan Monnier, 2024/05/26
- bug#70784: Abolish string resizing, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/05/26
- bug#70784: Abolish string resizing, Stefan Monnier, 2024/05/26
- bug#70784: Abolish string resizing, Richard Stallman, 2024/05/27