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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: 53227@debbugs.gnu.org, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#53227: master: Wrong error message with M-: (funcall).
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 10:32:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtk0ugjn.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874k683smu.fsf@gmail.com> (Robert Pluim's message of "Thu, 13 Jan 2022 10:13:45 +0100")

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

> Itʼs not Ffuncall's responsibility to check that, itʼs 'eval' that
> should be doing it. Compare with eg M-: (format), which correctly
> signals 'wrong-number-of-arguments.

Or rather macroexpand-all:

(macroexpand-all '(format))
=> (format)

(macroexpand-all '(funcall))
=> (funcall nil)

Perhaps Stefan has some insights into this; added to the CCs.

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-13  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-13  7:39 bug#53227: master: Wrong error message with M-: (funcall) Alan Mackenzie
2022-01-13  9:13 ` Robert Pluim
2022-01-13  9:32   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-01-13 10:55     ` Andreas Schwab
2022-01-13 14:36       ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-13 15:37         ` Andreas Schwab
2022-01-13 20:37           ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-13 21:27             ` Andreas Schwab
2022-01-13 23:52               ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-14  0:04                 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-01-14  0:09                   ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-14  0:17                     ` Andreas Schwab
2022-01-14  0:19                       ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-14  9:55                         ` Andreas Schwab
2022-01-14 17:22                           ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-14  7:36             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-14 17:26               ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-13 18:24     ` Alan Mackenzie

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