From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [modules] Possible return values of the env->type_of? Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 21:10:18 +0300 Message-ID: <8336xer8tx.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1529690927 18523 195.159.176.226 (22 Jun 2018 18:08:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 18:08:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 22 20:08:43 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fWQUF-0004ja-2L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2018 20:08:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35539 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fWQWK-00014p-EP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2018 14:10:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60071) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fWQVh-00013P-QF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2018 14:10:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fWQVd-0000I9-QJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2018 14:10:13 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54697) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fWQVd-0000Hy-Mu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2018 14:10:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4110 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fWQVd-0005ia-5U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2018 14:10:09 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Kaushal Modi on Fri, 22 Jun 2018 10:41:35 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117256 Archived-At: > From: Kaushal Modi > 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.