From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Subject: Re: Dot at start of symbols confuses edebug
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 04:11:33 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hdocgasa.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yoijbrelulfl.fsf@frealaf.dd.chalmers.se> (Johan Bockgård's message of "Sat, 30 Oct 2004 01:57:50 +0200")
bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) writes:
> (let (.foo ) .foo)
> C-u C-M-x =>
> edebug-syntax-error: Invalid read syntax: "Dotted spec required."
>
> (let (.foo) (ignore 0 .foo))
> C-u C-M-x =>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument
> number-or-marker-p ((16924 . 16927) . 16928))
> edebug-inc-offset(((16924 . 16927) . 16928))
> edebug-form((((ignore 0 . foo)) (16913 (16914 . 16920) (16921 .
> 16922) (16924 . 16927) . 16928) . 16929))
>
> (defun .foo (n))
> C-u C-M-x =>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-read-syntax "Expected `)'")
> signal(invalid-read-syntax ("Expected `)'"))
> edebug-syntax-error("Expected `)'")
It seems there is no simple fix to support unusual variable names
in edebug. However, if you need dots in variable names you can
add \ before dots:
(let (\.foo ) \.foo)
(let (\.foo) (ignore 0 \.foo))
(defun \.foo (n))
and C-u C-M-x works fine.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-30 1:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-29 23:57 Dot at start of symbols confuses edebug Johan Bockgård
2004-10-30 1:11 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2004-10-30 14:20 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-30 23:02 ` Juri Linkov
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