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From: | John Wiegley |
Subject: | Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes |
Date: | Fri, 07 Sep 2018 16:41:04 -0700 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.91 (darwin) |
>>>>> "PE" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes: PE> Cool! That means we can do Stefan's request simply by reverting Kenichi PE> Handa's patch that introduced the ability to change the byte length of a PE> string (commit 3c9de1afcde82a99137721436c822059cce79b5b dated 2000-07-21 PE> 06:45:30 UTC), since that patch made the code explicitly disagree with the PE> documentation. Though this leaves open the question of why Handa made that PE> change in the first place. I'd like to hear Handa's rationale, but otherwise am +1 for reverting. -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2
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