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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | Re: using setq to create lists based on other lists... |
Date: | Tue, 04 Dec 2018 08:56:04 -0500 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> There's nothing wrong with it in Emacs Lisp Actually, there is in the sense that these are global variables and so can interfere with other Elisp packages. > and a number of other Lisp dialects. For most other Lisps what the user writes only creates havoc with its own code because each program runs in its own process. But Emacs being its own kind of OS the situation is a bit different. Of course similar situations occur with "Lisp machine" kind of systems (or Smalltalk machines, ...). Stefan
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