bug#40671: [DOC] modify literal objects

[Paul Eggert]

On 5/11/20 2:29 AM, Mattias Engdegård wrote:
> As an experiment, I added an immutable cons type some time ago and found 
> these and more. The attachment contains some of the adjustments made at the 
> time. This isn't complete; I never got to a full bootstrap, for unrelated 
> reasons.

Thanks for sending that patch. Even if incomplete, it's better to not try to
modify constants so I installed the attached into master; it's derived from your
patch and supersedes my earlier (typo-containing) patch about nconc.

> By the way: Is there any reason you prefer `(a b c ,@tail) to (append '(a b 
> c) tail)?

No, I just wasn't thinking. The attached patch uses 'append'.

0001-Don-t-attempt-to-modify-constant-conses.txt
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