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bug#40671: [DOC] modify literal objects

From: Dmitry Gutov
Subject: bug#40671: [DOC] modify literal objects
Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 02:37:05 +0300
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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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