From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen via "Emacs development discussions." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Improve the byte compiler: cryptic error message, macros Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 19:44:30 +0200 Message-ID: <8734nqydtt.fsf@web.de> References: <87msly7vwi.fsf@mat.ucm.es> Reply-To: Michael Heerdegen Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29757"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:LTXUhddZh7gUxOLSSfP2/OHWg3I= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 30 19:44:41 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sYqtr-0007Zm-Sv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2024 19:44:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sYqt5-00079U-IG; Tue, 30 Jul 2024 13:43:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sYqt4-00079G-Ee for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2024 13:43:50 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sYqt2-0001np-VC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2024 13:43:50 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sYqsz-0006eQ-HR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2024 19:43:45 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:322219 Archived-At: Hello Uwe, here is a smaller recipe: #+begin_src emacs-lisp (defmacro string> (a b) (list 'not (list 'or (list 'string= a b) (list 'string< a b)))) (sort (list "2" "1") #'string>) #+end_src > [...] Results in > > > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-function (macro . #f(compiled-function (a b) #))) > (macro . #f(compiled-function (a b) #))("oranges" "apples") > sort(("apples" "oranges") string>) But this is crystal clear to me: `sort' expects a function, while a macro has been specified. What exactly is your wish or suggestion? Michael.