From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: why does `variable-at-point' return 0?
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:56:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAeL0ST=5MK8yAd7_tXY23YqVTOGUvdNs9eqN9n962S+qO2MXA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr4vj4cgk.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 23:52, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> That's most likely the reason, so as not to get tripped up by a variable
> whose name happens to be "nil" (unlikely in Lisp, admittedly).
`variable-at-point' is used five times in the lisp/* sources, and in
every case there's a check like
(and (symbolp val) val)
or
(if (eq val 0) nil val)
so it seems like v-a-p needs an upgrade.
Juanma
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-19 22:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-07 0:23 why does `variable-at-point' return 0? Drew Adams
2012-04-16 18:07 ` Drew Adams
2012-04-19 19:50 ` Štěpán Němec
2012-04-19 21:28 ` Drew Adams
2012-04-19 21:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-19 22:56 ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2012-04-20 18:14 ` Štěpán Němec
2012-04-20 22:57 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-04-21 2:24 ` Stefan Monnier
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