From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
Cc: 35238@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35238: 27.0.50; Clarify eventp behaviour with booleans
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 19:42:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsguonmee.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pnpsp3jd.fsf@tcd.ie> (Basil L. Contovounesios's message of "Thu, 11 Apr 2019 23:42:30 +0100")
> As mentioned in a past commit[1], nil is not an event.
> Since the car of a mouse click event is considered its type,
> shouldn't (nil) also be rejected as an event?
Not sure it's worth the trouble (there are already lots of other objects
that aren't events but for which eventp returns non-nil).
> Should t be counted as an event?
>
> (eventp t) ; => t
> (eventp '(t)) ; => t
Not sure if we ever generate such an event, but what would be the
benefit of rejecting it?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-11 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-11 22:42 bug#35238: 27.0.50; Clarify eventp behaviour with booleans Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-04-11 23:42 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-04-12 11:11 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-04-12 12:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-12 12:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-13 17:53 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-04-14 3:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-22 23:19 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-04-23 2:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-07 17:08 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
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