bug#7631: 24.0.50; inconsistency in event-convert-list and event-basic-type

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Don March <don@ohspite.net> writes:

>>> (event-convert-list '(t)) ; => 116
>>
>>> There's good reason to want this to eval to t (i.e. the symbol, not
>>> the char).
>>
>> Could you explain what is this good reason?
>
> I guess it boils down to the expected result of:
>
> (setq event t)
>
> (event-convert-list
>  (append (event-modifiers event)
>         (list (event-basic-type event)))) ; => 116, not t

Or simpler:

(event-convert-list (list nil 's))
=> 115

(115 is the same as the character ?s.)

The doc string says:

---
EVENT-DESC should contain one base event type (a character or symbol)
and zero or more modifier names (control, meta, hyper, super, shift, alt,
drag, down, double or triple).  The base must be last.
The return value is an event type (a character or symbol) which
has the same base event type and all the specified modifiers.
---

(event-basic-type 's)
=> s

So if this isn't a bug (and I think it would be problematic to change
the return value at this point), the doc string is at least slightly
misleading here, and shouldn't claim that it returns exactly the same
base event type.

Any opinions?

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