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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Eric Marsden <eric.marsden@risk-engineering.org>,
	Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
	Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>
Cc: 69454@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#69454: Not possible to insert an empty vtable
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2024 10:54:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86plw3yecs.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5aee0900-7459-4aef-b3c1-cdf83e48b874@risk-engineering.org> (message from Eric Marsden on Wed, 28 Feb 2024 15:29:11 +0100)

> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 15:29:11 +0100
> From: Eric Marsden <eric.marsden@risk-engineering.org>
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The following generates an error. It seems to me that it would be 
> preferable to insert the header line and show zero rows for the vtable.
> 
>     (require 'vtable)
>     (make-vtable :columns '("tweedle" "dum") :objects (list))
> 
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-number-of-arguments #<subr max> 0)
>    max()
>    apply(max nil)
>    seq-max(nil)

I'm not sure we want to support zero-size vtables.  A better error
message would be nice, though.  What do others think?

P.S. Adam, I took the liberty of adding you to this discussion, since
you seem lately to be interested in vtable.





  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-09  8:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-28 14:29 bug#69454: Not possible to insert an empty vtable Eric Marsden
2024-03-09  8:54 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-03-11 19:57   ` Adam Porter
2024-03-14  9:37     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-16  0:14       ` Adam Porter
2024-04-30  9:10   ` Joost Kremers
2024-04-30 12:14     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]       ` <8f5fb814-5d88-4ad3-b12a-8246325d5d21@alphapapa.net>
2024-05-01 11:54         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-02  7:31         ` Joost Kremers
2024-05-05 12:15     ` Joost Kremers
2024-05-30 21:40       ` Joost Kremers
2024-05-30 21:52         ` Joost Kremers
2024-05-31  5:24           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-31  6:54             ` Joost Kremers
2024-06-02 17:49               ` Adam Porter
2024-06-03 12:13                 ` Joost Kremers
2024-06-08 12:34                   ` Eli Zaretskii

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