Subject: Re: bug#40671: [DOC] modify literal objects

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 16:53:25 -0700

On 4/28/20 4:36 PM, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> On 29.04.2020 02:10, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> The "do not touch" values are called "constants" in the documentation now, just
>> as they are in the documentation for the other languages.
> 
> In other languages, constants are something you can't change.

That's not true for C, or for Common Lisp, or for the other languages I
mentioned. You can change constants sometimes and not others. Behavior is
undefined if you try.

It sounds like we're merely disagreeing about using the word "constant" vs using
some other word or phrase (it's not clear what). But there's clear precedent
elsewhere for the terminology now in use in the emacs-27 manual.