Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[Richard Stallman]

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    * I'm concerned that there are security implications to supporting the
      "raw byte" code points.  I can expand on this more if you'd like.

I'd like to know how it is that "raw bytes" have security implications.
Are there programs that make assumptions about the contents of strings?
That seems like bad design.

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