Re: Strange incf behavior in Emacs 22. Intentional?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

> Because immediate literal values such as '(1 2) are conceptually part of the
> code rather than part of the data, so setcar on them will change program
> code which is against my religion.
>
> Of course, this might be considered moot since my religion also
> opposes setcar (and aset on strings).


All religions (as well as political parties) have and should have their 
contradictions. That is life.

I would say that the first part, changing '(1 2), is very confusing. 
Consider debugging for example.