Re: Mutating existing persistent data

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Qiantan Hong <qhong@mit.edu> writes:

> I posted sth about it (and also sth else) in
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-12/msg00602.html
> Lars, can you comment on it?
>
> Essentially, the interface I’m proposing is 
> (make-persistent-store generalized-variable path)
>
> The first time (in the history of universe) it is called,
> when path does not exist, it does nothing, but it
> initialize the bookkeeping structure.
> When it is called later (in potentially a new Emacs 
> instance), the full content of generalized-variable is
> fully recovered from its last state.

I think you're proposing what I've already implemented.

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