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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





  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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