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History of 2016-05-23 Literal values and destructive functions
2016-05-23
05:02 UTC
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Marcin Borkowski
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In Lisp literature you can often find a warning about not using destructive functions (like sort or nconc) on values coming from literals. This is a good advice, and you should follow it. Here’s a short stab at a (partial) explanation (note that all examples are in Emacs Lisp).