From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: "Juan José García Ripoll" <juanjose.garcia.ripoll@csic.es>,
48219@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#48219: 27.1.90; CL-LOOP facility fails with hash tables
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2022 16:20:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8rpbp99t.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v8sf3ggb.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 02 Jul 2022 13:24:36 +0200")
Lars Ingebrigtsen [2022-07-02 13:24:36] wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>> Yes, that does seem wrong.
>>
>> Agreed, but I don't know what the code is supposed to do when `database`
>> is not-nil, so I can't even tell if the code is meaningful.
>
> (cl-loop
> for database in nil
> for aux = (message "databse: %S" database)
> for entry being the hash-values of database
> do (message "FOO %S" database))
>
> Hm... Oh, yeah -- that's not really a meaningful loop statement, is it?
I think it's not because `database` is both a loop variables (i.e. one
that iterates over elements of something else) and one of the something
else over which we want to iterate. So the only meaningful
interpretation I can see would be 2 nested loops, but the `loop` macro
is designed to make a single loop, not nested loops.
FWIW, I just tried it with `clisp` and it happpily expands it into
a single loop which does something weird (it sets up up a hash-table
iterator to operator over "the hash-table `database`" but at a time
where the `database` variable has not yet been initialized (i.e. it's
nil)).
> But since it's a meaningless loop, perhaps erroring out in the hash
> table case is fine, too?
I'm OK with erroring out if we can emit a meaning error message.
> Whew! That was simple!
Occam's razor, man: it's all in the shave!
Stefan "who doesn't shave"
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2021-05-04 8:46 bug#48219: 27.1.90; CL-LOOP facility fails with hash tables Juan José García Ripoll
2022-07-01 12:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-01 14:03 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-02 11:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-02 20:20 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2022-07-03 12:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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