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

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 02:37:05 +0300

On 02.05.2020 00:46, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 4/30/20 8:03 PM, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
>> Could we call them "interned values"? Like "interned strings" in some
>> programming languages.
> "Interned" would imply that we're merely deduplicating objects by hashing their
> contents, which means modifying one deduplicated object modifies them all. But
> the problem is bigger than that. There are some objects that one simply should
> not modify, even if they are not deduplicated.

True. It's just the closest term from other languages I know that I 
could think of.