From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: "Clément Pit-Claudel" <clement.pitclaudel@live.com>,
"Noam Postavsky" <npostavs@gmail.com>,
31715@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31715: cl-incf and cl-decf error out when passed a nil-valued variable as 'offset'
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 15:11:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bkwu7f9q.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vaay3w2g.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Tue, 05 Jun 2018 02:40:07 +0200")
Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
> It's not that super clear. If we keep the current definition (though I
> would rather like to see this fixed if possible), maybe consider to add
> something like "If X is specified, it should be an expression that
> should evaluate to a number".
Reading this bug thread, different tweaks were suggested, but they all
seem to have various disadvantages. So I think the conclusion here is
that doing this documentation clarification is the safest thing, so I've
now done so in Emacs 29.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-21 13:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-04 20:06 bug#31715: cl-incf and cl-decf error out when passed a nil-valued variable as 'offset' Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-06-04 22:58 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-06-04 23:43 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-06-05 0:12 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-06-05 0:40 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-04-21 13:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2018-06-05 15:19 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-06-05 22:53 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-06-05 23:01 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-06-05 23:26 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-06-05 23:36 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-06-06 0:32 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-06-06 0:37 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-06-05 15:03 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
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