From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Christoph Conrad <christoph.conrad@gmx.de>,
980@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#980: Bug? sit-for and obsolete syntax
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:01:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48CD516E.4070303@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fxo32df6.fsf@ID-24456.user.uni-berlin.de>
> GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of
> 2008-05-03 on terranova, modified by Ubuntu
>
> sit-for supports an obsolete call syntax with
>
> (sit-for SECONDS &optional MILLISECONDS NODISP)
>
> according to the doc string.
>
> It checks:
>
> (when (or obsolete (numberp nodisp))
> (setq seconds (+ seconds (* 1e-3 nodisp)))
> (setq nodisp obsolete))
>
> the first logical 'or' should be imho 'and'. Else obsolete could be
> non-nil, but nodisp could be no number (e.g. nil), and that results in
> an error when multiplying.
The definition of `sit-for' has been changed by Glenn as
* subr.el (sit-for): Fix obsolete form for nil second argument.
on 2008-02-21. I'm not sure whether that has fixed the problem you see,
so could you please verify by having a look at the current CVS version?
Thank you very much, martin.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-14 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <hkljxuczpx.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
2008-09-14 11:03 ` bug#980: Bug? sit-for and obsolete syntax Christoph Conrad
2008-09-14 18:01 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2008-09-14 18:23 ` Christoph Conrad
2008-09-14 19:15 ` bug#980: marked as done (Bug? sit-for and obsolete syntax) Emacs bug Tracking System
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