From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: setq's with missing final arguments.
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 14:11:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a8q65gd6.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9ke9o6x.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (David Kastrup's message of "Sun, 22 Nov 2015 14:08:22 +0100")
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>
>> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
>>
>>> Hello, Emacs.
>>>
>>> Consider this file:
>>>
>>> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>>> (defvar foo t)
>>> (defvar bar t)
>>>
>>> (defun bad-setq ()
>>> "Doc string"
>>> (setq foo 5
>>> bar))
>>> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>>>
>>> In the setq, there is a missing argument after "bar". At the moment,
>>> the byte compiler just generates code to assign nil to bar, without
>>> giving any warning. IMAO, this is Very Bad.
>>
>> But consistent with how setq works.
>
> How so?
Where did I say "documented"?
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-22 13:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-22 12:26 setq's with missing final arguments Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-22 12:31 ` David Kastrup
2015-11-22 12:35 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-11-22 12:44 ` Teemu Likonen
2015-11-22 15:53 ` multi-assignment setq [was: setq's with missing final arguments.] Drew Adams
2015-11-23 7:58 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-11-23 15:02 ` Drew Adams
2015-11-22 12:52 ` setq's with missing final arguments Andreas Schwab
2015-11-22 13:03 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-22 13:08 ` David Kastrup
2015-11-22 13:11 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2015-11-22 13:23 ` David Kastrup
2015-11-22 13:34 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-11-22 14:10 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-22 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-22 19:44 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-23 1:36 ` Drew Adams
2015-11-22 15:42 ` Johan Bockgård
2015-11-22 16:04 ` Drew Adams
2015-11-22 15:52 ` Drew Adams
2015-11-22 23:08 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-22 23:20 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-23 1:54 ` Drew Adams
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