GNU bug report logs - #40693
28.0.50; json-encode-alist changes alist

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ivan Andrus <darthandrus <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 03:01:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, patch

Found in version 28.0.50

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 40693 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: Ivan Andrus <darthandrus <at> gmail.com>, 40693 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#40693: 28.0.50; json-encode-alist changes alist
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 03:10:14 +0300

On 19.04.2020 02:13, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> I mean, it's really an example of an ugly trap, but how is
> `json-encode-alist' different from other functions working with lists
> that would exploit the same problem?

It's a difference between cl-delete and cl-remove. For example.

But unlike both of them, the semantics of json-encode-alist give no 
indication that the argument is going to be modified.
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