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

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Message #315 received at 40671 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: ke.vigouroux <at> laposte.net, 40671 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, michael_heerdegen <at> web.de,
 mattiase <at> acm.org, dgutov <at> yandex.ru, drew.adams <at> oracle.com
Subject: Re: bug#40671: [DOC] modify literal objects
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 22:47:32 -0400

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To a purist, the vagueness about what happens to Emacs if you modify
code at the wrong time may seem intolerable.  If there were an easy
and painless way to implement well-defined behavior, it might be worth
doing so.  But there isn't.

This isn't a big difficulty in practice.  It isn't worth sacrificing
anything that matters.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

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