From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to quote a list of functions? Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 13:54:39 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87h9nv8pds.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: <871tfdjqjx.fsf@mbork.pl> <87zj1vddkz.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87mvxug2us.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> <87vbch1gb0.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> <87wpwudby7.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> <87zj1qbwxs.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87r3n2btjl.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87mvxqbooi.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <8737zhcsvo.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> <87b6cce0-ebe6-400a-b6e9-957e79a66511@default> <87oai4yvcg.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> <87zj1o82mf.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1439985443 26387 80.91.229.3 (19 Aug 2015 11:57:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 11:57:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 19 13:57:15 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZS1zE-0002pm-Pz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 13:56:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34010 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZS1zE-0000lD-6n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 07:56:56 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Trace: individual.net zaACd3dYyQ5GItbV0+dsAgHOj8/t6hP8gykQLKkFm/8RYsqpsi Cancel-Lock: sha1:OWY3NDI1N2MwZWYxZGUwNDUwOTM3YTgxNDMxZDNjMDBkMTExZmM3Mw== sha1:opVU1RNkV1rqBuRlv8wkRJSEIy8= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:214428 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106710 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> This is a distinction that is lost on emacs lisp, and I would consider >> that to be a bug. > > FWIW I also dislike this behavior of #' but fixing it is likely to be > more trouble than it's worth. If the emacs lisp compiler had some dataflow analysis, it might tag the data obtained from function, and if it used in a function that expects a symbol and not a function designator or a function, then a warning could be issued. Then a few release later, it could be corrected without too much pain. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ “The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk