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Re: defconst
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Stefan |
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Re: defconst |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:17:50 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) |
> I believe it would be better if `defconst' behaved like `defconstant'
> in CLISP: throw an error if the user or a program tries to change the
> value through anything else but a second defconst.
I obviously agree since that's what my local Emacs does ;-)
> Maybe it might not be advisable to make such a change before the
> release, but what about after it? I bring it up now, because a
> decision on this might affect what we do with current defconst's.
I haven't pushed for such a thing (other than by adding a byte-compiler
warning and by installing patches to fix the problems I encounter) because
it creates a backward incompatibility without much immediate benefit.
Stefan