From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 24649@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24649: 24.5; Why no standard error for "Trailing garbage following expression"?
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 10:16:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zhk0b8l7.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83imqob90l.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 23 Aug 2019 11:06:50 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> > + xsignal1 (Qinvalid_read_syntax,
>> > + build_string ("Trailing garbage following expression"));
>>
>> There weren't any comments, so I've now applied this. If somebody has a
>> better idea for the error signal, please amend.
>
> Thanks, but this change needs to be reflected in the ELisp manual,
> where currently invalid-read-syntax is documented for a different use
> case.
Let's see... Qargs_out_of_range would be inappropriate... And
Qwrong_type_argument... Perhaps the closest one of the predefined
errors would be Qend_of_file?
Or we could have a new one. `garbage-follows-expression'? That's
pretty explicit.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-09 18:03 bug#24649: 24.5; Why no standard error for "Trailing garbage following expression"? Drew Adams
2019-07-27 14:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-23 0:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-23 8:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-23 8:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-08-23 9:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-23 18:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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