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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Message #345 received at 40671-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 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: Re: bug#40671: [DOC] modify literal objects
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.
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