From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master f6b5db6: Add support for generators
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 15:05:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54F78FCC.4020500@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv7fuw5pvi.fsf-monnier+emacsdiffs@gnu.org>
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On 03/04/2015 03:02 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Why should that be a bug?
>
> Because the body is missing.
> Don't know, maybe it's just me. I admit having seen things like
>
> (defun foo ())
>
> but it always looked like a horrible abuse to me, rather than something
> I'd like to actively support.
It does work, though. It's analogous to (progn), (and), and (or), which
evolve to nil, nil, and t, respectively. Common Lisp also works fine
with empty function bodies. We shouldn't make empty functions work
everywhere except this one context.
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2015-03-03 18:05 ` [Emacs-diffs] master f6b5db6: Add support for generators Stefan Monnier
2015-03-03 18:20 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-03-03 19:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-03 21:03 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-03-03 21:06 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-03-04 4:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-04 5:34 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-03-04 23:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-04 23:05 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2015-03-05 1:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-04 4:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-03 19:51 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-03-05 0:01 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-03-21 5:52 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-03-21 13:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-25 13:09 ` Michael Heerdegen
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