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From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>,
	Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
	59710@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#59710: Wrong type argument when editing a multisession variable
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2022 10:40:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmt856ckj.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <835yetg80m.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 02 Dec 2022 17:06:17 +0200")

>> @@ -671,4 +671,6 @@ bound-and-true-p
>>  Note that if `lexical-binding' is in effect, this function isn't
>>  meaningful if it refers to a lexically bound variable."
>> +  (unless (symbolp var)
>> +    (error "Wrong type argument: symbolp, %S" var))
>>    `(and (boundp (quote ,var)) ,var))
>
> I have no opinion on that.  Lars, Stefan: WDYT?

I wish Someone™ implemented something like
[Fortifying macros](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1863543.1863577)
to solve this in a more general way :-)

I have no objections against such a change.


        Stefan






  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-02 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-30  1:49 bug#59710: Wrong type argument when editing a multisession variable Juanma Barranquero
2022-12-02 13:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-02 13:30   ` Juanma Barranquero
2022-12-02 15:06     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-02 15:40       ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2022-12-03  0:25         ` Juanma Barranquero
2022-12-03  0:28           ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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