From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Cc: 41864@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41864: 28.0.50; funcall: attempting to call a macro does not always complain
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2020 13:02:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875z79t8t1.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a715gjcl.fsf@pierrot.dokosmarshall.org> (Nick Dokos's message of "Sun, 14 Jun 2020 22:20:58 -0400")
Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:
> If I attempt the same thing with a macro however, it does not always
> fail:
>
> (defmacro mac/z () "z")
> (funcall 'mac/z) ==> fails with Invalid function: mac/z
> (funcall (function mac/z)) ==> "z"
>
> Should it fail in the last case?
That is indeed pretty odd.
(eq 'mac/z (function mac/z))
=> t
Does anybody here understand what's happening here?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-17 11:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-15 2:20 bug#41864: 28.0.50; funcall: attempting to call a macro does not always complain Nick Dokos
2020-10-17 11:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-10-17 12:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-17 14:11 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-17 18:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-18 7:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-18 8:52 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-18 9:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-18 9:34 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-18 9:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-18 9:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-19 8:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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