Re: Questions about throw-on-input

[Richard Stallman]

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An editor buffer is global mutable state.  Global mutable state is at
the heart of GNU Emacs, and I disagree with the idea that we should
try to get away from it.  That is a non-goal.

Even if someone showed me that there is no significant inconvenience
in writing a text editor without global mutable state -- which I am
skeptical of -- I would be against putting effort into changing the
internal design of Emacs for goals that are internal.  We should
put our effort into features that provide benefits to users.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)