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Re: Is this a bug of Emacs-Lisp?


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Is this a bug of Emacs-Lisp?
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:28:27 +0100
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Zhang Wei <address@hidden> writes:

> (defun dummy () '(1 . 2))
>
> (dummy)
>  => (1 . 2)
>
> (setcdr (dummy) 3)
>
> (dummy)
>  => (1 . 3)
>
> Modify the return value of dummy changed it's defination. Is this
> a bug of Elisp? If it's not. How does this happen?

You can write FORTRAN in any language. :-) If you are destructively
modifying a constant, you'll get such results.

Andreas.

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