From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: Jean-Christophe Helary <brandelune@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: wrong number of arguments when launched interactively...
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 15:06:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lg5hqmil.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27A15626-627A-4164-BE6B-FDD08C9247BA@gmail.com> (Jean-Christophe Helary's message of "Sun, 25 Nov 2018 22:35:33 +0900")
On Sun, 25 Nov 2018 22:35:33 +0900 Jean-Christophe Helary <brandelune@gmail.com> wrote:
> (beginner warning)
>
> I'm trying to automate the creation of html templates to avoid link mistakes and I wrote this code today:
>
> (defun dailyIndex (myDate)
[...]
> (write-region (dailyIndex) nil "~/Desktop/index.html"))
>
> When run interactively, I always get a "wrong number of arguments"
> error. When I evaluate the internal expressions one by one, I never
> get this. I have no idea what is going on...
You've defined a function, dailyIndex, that takes one obligatory
argument, myDate, but the last line of the function definition calls the
function without argument, that's the error. Did you mean to make that
line part of the function definition (and hence make it recursive)?
Steve Berman
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2018-11-25 13:35 wrong number of arguments when launched interactively Jean-Christophe Helary
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2018-11-25 14:36 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
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