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[DOC] modify literal objects

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: ke.vigouroux <at> laposte.net, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 40671 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, mattiase <at> acm.org, dgutov <at> yandex.ru
Subject: bug#40671: [DOC] modify literal objects
Date: Fri, 01 May 2020 09:23:10 +0300

> From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 22:47:32 -0400
> Cc: ke.vigouroux <at> laposte.net, 40671 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, michael_heerdegen <at> web.de,
>  mattiase <at> acm.org, dgutov <at> yandex.ru
> 
> 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.

I agree, but the practical problem is that we have a couple of purists
on board, for whom this is an itch they scratch not too infrequently.

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