From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 11460@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11460: 24.1.50; doc string of `assert'
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 14:36:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbnyg6px5.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bnyggbst.fsf@building.gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 08 Feb 2014 20:17:06 -0800")
> Looking at the code, I'm still not sure what the meaning here is.
> (let ((sargs (and show-args
> (delq nil (mapcar (lambda (x)
> (unless (macroexp-const-p x)
> x))
> (cdr form))))))
> So... if the elements in the rest of FORM evaluate to the same value,
> they're included in the error output, but if not, not? Uhm...
FWIW, this part of `cl-assert' is not only poorly documented, but it's
poorly designed. And it doesn't have the excuse that it's inherited
from Common Lisp.
So I'd rather not document that mis-feature in any more detail.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-09 19:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-12 15:06 bug#11460: 24.1.50; doc string of `assert' Drew Adams
2012-09-16 23:55 ` Drew Adams
2014-02-09 4:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-09 19:36 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-02-09 22:14 ` Drew Adams
2014-02-10 2:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-10 2:42 ` Drew Adams
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