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by xonre 440 days ago
Load the table. Modify. Serialize to file.

Not too hard. Emacs does it with the .emacs file, mixing generated and manual content.

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> Load the table

If it comes from an impure function, you don't know if you'll get the same result each time you evaluate it.

> Modify. Serialize to file.

And potentially lose information.