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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: 20241-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20241: 25.0.50; `setq' with only one argument
Date: 23 Nov 2015 14:31:12 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151123143112.83911.qmail@mail.muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.3138.1427900048.31049.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>

In article <mailman.3138.1427900048.31049.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> you wrote:
> See for example: `(setq mark-active)' in `compilation-goto-locus'
> (compile.el).

> setq' should not be called with only one argument.  It "works", with the
> effect of assigning a value of nil, but it is poor form.  Typically this
> is a sign of a typo.

Fixed in emacs-25.  The interpreter now signals a wrong-number-of-args
error, and the byte compiler issues a warning.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).






  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-11-23 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-01 14:53 bug#20241: 25.0.50; `setq' with only one argument Drew Adams
2015-04-01 16:41 ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found] ` <mailman.3138.1427900048.31049.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-11-23 14:31   ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2015-11-23 18:44     ` Glenn Morris
2015-11-23 18:54       ` Glenn Morris
2015-11-23 22:05         ` John Wiegley
2015-11-23 19:31       ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-24 11:32         ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-24 17:38         ` Glenn Morris
2015-11-24 18:04           ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-24 19:26             ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-24 21:09               ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-25  1:46                 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-25  9:41                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-25 10:36                     ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-25 11:07                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-25 11:13                         ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-25 11:28                           ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-25 15:18                         ` Drew Adams
2015-11-25 15:40                           ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-25 16:27                             ` Drew Adams
2015-11-25 17:22                               ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-25 18:28                                 ` Drew Adams
2015-11-25 19:06                                   ` John Wiegley
2015-11-25 19:21                                     ` John Mastro
2015-11-25 19:22                                     ` Drew Adams
2015-11-25 19:34                                     ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-25 19:40                                       ` John Wiegley
2015-11-25 20:20                                         ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-25 20:37                                           ` John Wiegley
2015-11-26 11:07                                             ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-25 20:58                                         ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-25 21:19                                           ` Drew Adams
2015-11-25 21:52                                           ` John Wiegley
2015-11-26  0:21                                     ` Johan Bockgård
2015-11-26  8:58                                       ` Andreas Schwab
2015-11-26 12:06                                         ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-26 16:38                                           ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-26 21:19                                             ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-27  0:07                                               ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-25 13:11                       ` Nicolas Richard

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