* Re: unescaped character literals [not found] <mailman.8744.1518107626.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> @ 2018-02-08 17:17 ` Emanuel Berg 2018-02-08 17:27 ` Emanuel Berg 0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread From: Emanuel Berg @ 2018-02-08 17:17 UTC (permalink / raw) To: help-gnu-emacs Andreas Röhler wrote: > When opening Emacs26-pretest, get a message: > > unescaped character literals `?)' detected! > > AFAIU it refers to a test which contains > > (should (eq (char-before) ?)) Perhaps just escape it? (should (eq (char-before) ?\)) ; t ? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* Re: unescaped character literals 2018-02-08 17:17 ` unescaped character literals Emanuel Berg @ 2018-02-08 17:27 ` Emanuel Berg 2018-02-08 17:33 ` Emanuel Berg 0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread From: Emanuel Berg @ 2018-02-08 17:27 UTC (permalink / raw) To: help-gnu-emacs > Perhaps just escape it? > > (should (eq (char-before) ?\)) ; t > > ? No, there should be three parens! Paren match doesn't work in message mode with such exotic escaping... (should (eq (char-before) ?\)) ) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* Re: unescaped character literals 2018-02-08 17:27 ` Emanuel Berg @ 2018-02-08 17:33 ` Emanuel Berg 2018-02-08 17:50 ` Emanuel Berg 0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread From: Emanuel Berg @ 2018-02-08 17:33 UTC (permalink / raw) To: help-gnu-emacs > No, there should be three parens! Paren match > doesn't work in message mode with such exotic > escaping... > > (should > (eq (char-before) ?\)) > ) I forgot to document it: ;; only after a while ;; are you expected ;; to understand this -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* Re: unescaped character literals 2018-02-08 17:33 ` Emanuel Berg @ 2018-02-08 17:50 ` Emanuel Berg 2018-02-08 17:55 ` Emanuel Berg ` (2 more replies) 0 siblings, 3 replies; 9+ messages in thread From: Emanuel Berg @ 2018-02-08 17:50 UTC (permalink / raw) To: help-gnu-emacs Why does one use `should' ? (should FORM) Evaluate FORM. If it returns nil, abort the current test as failed. Returns the value of FORM. Isn't that what plain `or' do? (or 1) ; 1 -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* Re: unescaped character literals 2018-02-08 17:50 ` Emanuel Berg @ 2018-02-08 17:55 ` Emanuel Berg 2018-02-08 19:11 ` John Mastro [not found] ` <mailman.8748.1518117099.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> 2 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread From: Emanuel Berg @ 2018-02-08 17:55 UTC (permalink / raw) To: help-gnu-emacs > Isn't that what plain `or' do? > > (or 1) ; 1 Actually you don't even need `or'. 1 ; 1 Ha ha h... eheh -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* Re: unescaped character literals 2018-02-08 17:50 ` Emanuel Berg 2018-02-08 17:55 ` Emanuel Berg @ 2018-02-08 19:11 ` John Mastro [not found] ` <mailman.8748.1518117099.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> 2 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread From: John Mastro @ 2018-02-08 19:11 UTC (permalink / raw) To: help-gnu-emacs Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> wrote: > Why does one use `should' ? > > (should FORM) > > Evaluate FORM. If it returns nil, abort the > current test as failed. > > Returns the value of FORM. > > Isn't that what plain `or' do? `should' is part of ERT, a testing tool. That's what the docstring is referring to when it says "abort the current test as failed". See (info "(ERT)") John ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
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* Re: unescaped character literals [not found] ` <mailman.8748.1518117099.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> @ 2018-02-08 19:41 ` Emanuel Berg 0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread From: Emanuel Berg @ 2018-02-08 19:41 UTC (permalink / raw) To: help-gnu-emacs John Mastro wrote: > `should' is part of ERT, a testing tool. > That's what the docstring is referring to > when it says "abort the current test as > failed". > > See (info "(ERT)") OK. Well, testing is actually great! It is the best tool to find bugs in software second only to using it. YRM V. ^not Or actually they do! And that makes it even better. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* unescaped character literals @ 2018-02-08 16:32 Andreas Röhler 2018-02-08 20:44 ` Andreas Röhler 0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread From: Andreas Röhler @ 2018-02-08 16:32 UTC (permalink / raw) To: help-gnu-emacs When opening Emacs26-pretest, get a message: unescaped character literals `?)' detected! AFAIU it refers to a test which contains (should (eq (char-before) ?)) which seems right. Should that warning be reported as bug? Cheers, Andreas ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* Re: unescaped character literals 2018-02-08 16:32 Andreas Röhler @ 2018-02-08 20:44 ` Andreas Röhler 0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread From: Andreas Röhler @ 2018-02-08 20:44 UTC (permalink / raw) To: help-gnu-emacs On 08.02.2018 17:32, Andreas Röhler wrote: > When opening Emacs26-pretest, get a message: > > unescaped character literals `?)' detected! > > AFAIU it refers to a test which contains > > (should (eq (char-before) ?)) > > which seems right. Should that warning be reported as bug? > > Cheers, > > Andreas > Okay, should escape it, because otherwise the paren-match goes wrong. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
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