From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [modules] Possible return values of the env->type_of?
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 21:10:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8336xer8tx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFyQvY2coP24Od7Kvop_67JPNzRDtkAfAUCX4sxbnjapFYpzTw@mail.gmail.com> (message from Kaushal Modi on Fri, 22 Jun 2018 10:41:35 -0400)
> From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 10:41:35 -0400
>
> (should (eq 'cons (modtest-get-type '(1 2 3)))) ;Interestingly, this is a
> "cons" too.
> (should (eq 'cons (modtest-get-type (list 1 2 3))))) ;.. and this too!
>
> Below code[3] is in Nim that creates that Elisp modtest-get-type function;
> it's a light wrapper that calls the type_of Modules API function:
>
> emacs.defun(get_type, 1):
> ## Returns the Emacs-Lisp symbol of the argument type.
> env.type_of(env, args[0])
>
> Is this expected? I was expecting the type symbol returned for the last two
> tests above to be 'list.
There's no such type as 'list', it's just a cons cell with a special
cdr.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-22 18:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-22 14:41 [modules] Possible return values of the env->type_of? Kaushal Modi
2018-06-22 17:10 ` Kaushal Modi
2018-06-22 17:38 ` Aurélien Aptel
2018-06-22 17:52 ` Kaushal Modi
2018-06-22 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-25 16:13 ` Philipp Stephani
2018-06-22 20:58 ` Drew Adams
2018-06-22 18:10 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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