From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, stefan@marxist.se, 45428@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#45428: 27.1; (quote (quote (quote ...))) unexpectedly works as anonymous face
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 11:06:03 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <975c150b-99aa-4143-b057-8b5ec7caec19@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<83h7o7kufk.fsf@gnu.org>>
> > In my own configuration and Emacs Lisp programs, I would strongly prefer
> > to rely only on documented features of Emacs, and I would like Emacs to
> > at least warn me if my code starts to rely on features that are not
> > officially supported and hence may change more readily in the future.
>
> You should indeed rely on documented behavior. But that doesn't mean
> Emacs cannot have undocumented behavior, especially when it is a side
> effect of the specific implementation of some documented feature.
Agreed. But what is the specific need for this
particular undocumented behavior? That's the
question relevant for this bug, I think.
Does anyone even know why this undocumented,
unlispy, and bizarre exception was made here?
next parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-27 19:06 UTC|newest]
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2020-12-27 19:06 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-12-27 19:18 ` bug#45428: 27.1; (quote (quote (quote ...))) unexpectedly works as anonymous face Eli Zaretskii
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2020-12-28 20:44 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-29 14:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-29 16:40 ` Markus Triska
2020-12-29 17:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-29 18:39 ` Markus Triska
2020-12-29 19:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-29 18:27 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-29 19:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-30 2:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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2020-12-28 18:54 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-28 19:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2020-12-28 17:45 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-28 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-28 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2020-12-27 19:56 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-28 13:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-25 12:34 Markus Triska
2020-12-26 22:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-27 4:16 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-12-27 4:47 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-27 8:38 ` Markus Triska
2020-12-27 17:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-28 19:58 ` Andreas Schwab
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