From: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 48479@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#48479: 28.0.50; Crash on `read--expression'
Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 10:29:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BD5F39EC-2D3D-46DA-B46D-FC9F7DE0FD31@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1hvqu6j.fsf@gnus.org>
Hello Lars,
25 maj 2021 kl. 07.05 skrev Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:
> (condition-case nil
> (foo)
> ())
>
> ? A warning is nice, but I think signalling an error would be
> excessive.
Why is an error excessive for that syntax mistake, when we signal an error for
(condition-case
(do-something)
(error "failure"))
and
(condition-case nil
(do-something)
error "failure")
? Wouldn't the user be best served with an error in all cases?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-25 8:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-17 11:39 bug#48479: 28.0.50; Crash on `read--expression' Jean Louis
2021-05-17 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-17 20:01 ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-05-18 11:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-18 15:00 ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-05-18 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-18 15:42 ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-05-18 16:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-18 17:12 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-05-18 17:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-05-19 16:36 ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-05-19 14:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-19 15:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-19 16:33 ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-05-19 18:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-19 20:18 ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-05-25 5:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-25 8:29 ` Mattias Engdegård [this message]
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