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

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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: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Cc: Kevin Vigouroux <ke.vigouroux <at> laposte.net>, 40671-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40671: [DOC] modify literal objects
Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 14:46:39 -0700

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.
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