GNU bug report logs - #40671
[DOC] modify literal objects

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Kevin Vigouroux <ke.vigouroux <at> laposte.net>

Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 20:40:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Cc: ke.vigouroux <at> laposte.net, 40671 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40671: [DOC] modify literal objects
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 20:27:21 +0300

> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 18:37:23 +0200
> Cc: Kevin Vigouroux <ke.vigouroux <at> laposte.net>
> 
> > Can we modify literal objects? 
> 
> No, and the manual should do a much better job at explaining this. At the very least it should not promulgate bad ideas by including mutation of literals in example code. Patch attached, suggested for emacs-27.

I don't see any explanation of the issue in the patch, did I miss
something?

What I see summarily replaces literal lists and cons cells with a
calls to functions, and I'm not sure this is a step in the right
direction.  It definitely complicates the examples, which is not
necessarily TRT, methodologically, for such introductory sections.
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