unofficial mirror of bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com>
Cc: 40968@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40968: 28.0.50; (apply nil)
Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 21:51:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkWqy5s88q-UKCcBHmWFtNq=GC5x3ELfnUc6jc7njWfwQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOqdjBcEduhqB_2D959gAe5tPNQuHYaAMv+j1s0E78VQhY58eA@mail.gmail.com> (Pip Cet's message of "Wed, 29 Apr 2020 18:26:15 +0000")

Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm very confused by the behavior of `apply' when given only a single
> argument: when it's a nonempty list, the argument gets spread out and
> passed to Ffuncall (I guess this might be useful sometimes). When it's
> nil, Ffuncall gets called with nargs == 0 and Emacs crashes, at least
> sometimes.
>
> Should we fix the special case or raise apply's minimum argument count to 2?

I'm personally not a big fan of raising the minimum argument count,
thereby changing the function signature and making it harder to
understand.

We should just fix the bug, IMHO.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas





  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-05-06  1:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-29 18:26 bug#40968: 28.0.50; (apply nil) Pip Cet
2020-04-29 18:35 ` Pip Cet
2020-05-06  1:51 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2020-05-06  7:26   ` Pip Cet
2020-05-06 11:24     ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-06 11:49       ` Pip Cet
2020-05-06 13:02         ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-06 13:55           ` Pip Cet
2020-05-06 15:28             ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-06 18:06               ` Pip Cet
2020-05-06 19:26                 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-06 14:03           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-06 17:54             ` Pip Cet
2020-05-06 18:09               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-06 18:00           ` Drew Adams
2020-05-06 18:28             ` Noam Postavsky
2020-05-06 19:17               ` Drew Adams
2020-05-06 19:21                 ` Pip Cet
2020-05-06 19:28                   ` Drew Adams
2020-05-07  2:27                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-06 17:46         ` Drew Adams
2020-05-06 20:32         ` Phil Sainty
2020-05-06 21:35           ` Drew Adams
2020-09-29  3:00     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-06 10:18 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-05-06 10:45   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-06 10:57     ` Andreas Schwab
2020-05-06 11:25   ` Pip Cet
2020-05-06 11:49     ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-05-06 18:42 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-05-07  6:53   ` Pip Cet
2020-05-07  9:11     ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-05-07 11:54       ` Noam Postavsky
2020-05-07 11:58         ` Pip Cet
2020-05-07 12:20           ` Noam Postavsky
2020-05-07 13:53         ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-06-02  7:36           ` Pip Cet
2020-06-02 16:32             ` Drew Adams
2020-06-02 16:43               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-02 16:36             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-27 15:01             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-27 19:28               ` Drew Adams
     [not found] <<CC40D602-5027-40A7-9BAB-1AADC9E4BDAE@acm.org>
     [not found] ` <<CAOqdjBfj6AExvem5WWLfMiw4fEsY-xUUmosV+fj9CaPgWM16ag@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <<ECEC9424-919F-4364-9294-381C8751921A@acm.org>
     [not found]     ` <<874kssm04d.fsf@gmail.com>
     [not found]       ` <<6ADF0807-7EBD-4054-8579-4D9AD3065D51@acm.org>
     [not found]         ` <<CAOqdjBdQne3RFTjg4hej40L5aeBx6vbGp6nXKx2TwPkLPf5NPw@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]           ` <<fabfb1fd-4da1-4e72-90c9-333532011a48@default>
     [not found]             ` <<83pnahctad.fsf@gnu.org>
2020-06-02 17:10               ` Drew Adams
2020-06-02 18:41                 ` Pip Cet

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to='CADwFkmkWqy5s88q-UKCcBHmWFtNq=GC5x3ELfnUc6jc7njWfwQ@mail.gmail.com' \
    --to=stefan@marxist.se \
    --cc=40968@debbugs.gnu.org \
    --cc=pipcet@gmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).