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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes |
Date: | Sun, 09 Sep 2018 23:03:28 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> I meant to make aset cons a new string when it turns out the original > one's data is too small to include the new contents. `aset` is documented to return NEWELT, so what could it do with the newly cons'd string? We'd have to change `aset` so it returns this newly cons'd string, but that would also be a backward incompatible change. Better introduce a new function `sset` for it. Stefan
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