Re: master f51f963: Fix some side-effecting uses of make-text-button

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Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

>> consider quasi-quoted literals: would those be immutable?
>
> A string literal should not be modified, regardless of whether it's
> quasiquoted.
>
> A subexpression of `X that contains no substitutions or splices yields conses
> that should not be modified.
>
> These two rules are reasonably simple and are already documented, and neither
> rule should be that hard to remember for the few people whose code is affected
> by this issue.

Okay. It's a situation I was unsure about myself, but if these are the
rules, they are easy enough to remember.

>> It would lead to some people developing a false sense of security
>
> "False sense" because programmers would start relying on Emacs to
> catch trivial
> mistakes involving modifying string literals? Horrors! (Programmers should let
> those mistakes persist into hard-to-debug complex programs, as this will give
> them much more of a challenge when debugging. :-)

I'm not sure programmers would realize those errors are caught only at
run time, rather than being detected at compile time, which they could
be in many cases.