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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: 24982@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24982: 24.5; way to let Elisp reader ignore unreadable #(...) constructs
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 14:32:41 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <29891599-9f11-4154-9bcf-d51c5f21a2a1@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87370dib1r.fsf@mail.linkov.net>

> >> > Enhancement request:
> >> > Provide a Boolean variable or a wrapper macro that has the effect of
> >> > not raising an error but just skipping over any unreadable #(...)
> >> > construct.
> >>
> >> There is such macro called ‘ignore-errors’.
> >
> > No.  That ignores all errors.
> >
> > Is there an error handler that covers all and only #(...) read errors?
                                              ^^^^^^^^
> Then you can use something like
>   (condition-case err
>       (read (current-buffer))
>     (invalid-read-syntax err))
> that for example for unreadable #<marker ...> returns
>   (invalid-read-syntax "#")

And (read ")((") gives (invalid-read-syntax ")").
So it's not specific to unreadable #(...) or #....





  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-02 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-21 21:47 bug#24982: 24.5; way to let Elisp reader ignore unreadable #(...) constructs Drew Adams
2018-04-02 19:32 ` Juri Linkov
2018-04-02 20:31   ` Drew Adams
2018-04-02 20:54     ` Juri Linkov
2018-04-02 21:32       ` Drew Adams [this message]
2018-04-03 20:06         ` Juri Linkov
2020-08-22 19:13 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-22 19:17   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-22 19:28     ` Drew Adams
2020-08-22 19:53       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-22 22:44         ` Drew Adams
2020-08-22 19:25   ` Drew Adams
2022-02-13  8:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-13 17:33   ` bug#24982: [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-02-13 17:53     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-13 18:03       ` Drew Adams
2022-02-14  4:15   ` Richard Stallman
2022-04-30 17:01     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-30 17:26       ` Drew Adams

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