From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: false warnings when compiling with lexical-binding and cl-lib.
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 13:08:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4n71wudu.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878uwfulw5.fsf@gmail.com> (Thierry Volpiatto's message of "Sat, 23 Nov 2013 17:24:10 +0100")
>> Also the warning is only at compile time, should we return an error on
>> evaluation ?
I don't see why we should bother with an error.
(let* ((a 1) (a 2)) ...)
is not very useful, but it's not an error. The warning we currently
have is not perfect because it applies to the post-macroexpansion code,
so the user may not immediately understand what's going on, but your
suggested patch has the following downsides:
- it breaks previously working code.
- it does not tell you where (approximate line number) the error is located.
So if we want to improve on the current code, I think rather than
`cl-assert' we should use macroexp--warn-and-return (grep for it to see
sample uses). But the patch won't be as trivial.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-24 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-21 15:29 false warnings when compiling with lexical-binding and cl-lib Thierry Volpiatto
2013-11-22 1:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-22 5:33 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2013-11-22 7:48 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2013-11-23 6:13 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2013-11-23 13:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-23 15:53 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2013-11-23 16:24 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2013-11-24 18:08 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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