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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: alinsoar@voila.fr
Cc: "Emacs Help \[help-gnu-emacs\]" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
	"Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
	"Emacs Bug \[bug-gnu-emacs\]" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: (progn (top-level) A B C)
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:48:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jefy98tytl.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3473217.139831171474628637.JavaMail.www@wwinf4102> (A. Soare's message of "Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:37:08 +0100 (CET)")

A Soare <alinsoar@voila.fr> writes:

> Thanks, I will check. Another method that I found is
>
> (unwind-protect
>     (prog1
>         (message "x")
>       (top-level))
>   (message "a")
>   (message "b"))
>
>
> By the way, this code returns "Back to top level." . BAD.

It does not return anything.

> x
> a
> b
> Back to top level.
>
> What is the definition of prog1? It should return the first argument. It seems that in this case the 1st argument is lost.

This is not a bug. (top-level) throws to 'top-level, thus (prog1 ...) is
never finished.  unwind-protect only returns a value if the body completes
normally.  Otherwise it does not return anything, rather execution is
transferred directly to the receiving exception handler after executing
the unwind forms.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-14 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-14 17:37 (progn (top-level) A B C) A Soare
2007-02-14 17:48 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.4495.1171467492.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-14 16:22 ` Pascal Bourguignon
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-02-14 15:38 A Soare
2007-02-14 16:38 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)

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