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[DOC] modify literal objects

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Message #456 received at 40671 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>,
 ke.vigouroux <at> laposte.net, 40671 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: bug#40671: [DOC] modify literal objects
Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 05:18:13 +0200

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

> All good points. The simplest fix is to not mention symbol bindings
> here, as they're a complicated topic.

Yes, agreed.

> >> +  When the same value appears multiple times in a program, the Lisp
> >> +interpreter might save time or space by reusing existing values or
> >> +their components.  For example, @code{(eq "abc" "abc")} returns
> >
> > I think we call "values" what evaluation of expressions yields, so
> > values don't appear in a program (to be read).
>
> They can if one feeds the values into 'eval', which runs part of a
> program. And 'read' can read programs. So I'm not sure I get the
> distinction.

Now I get how you meant this.  I read the sentence more with a written
program and syntax in mind.


Michael.

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