On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 2:45 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:


> Are you saying that Emacs 26 doesn't signal a similar error in this
> case?  It does for me.
>

No, I did not imply that.

I just tried out on 26.1, and I get a similar error (integerp instead of
fixnump):

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument integerp nil)
  encode-time(nil nil nil 5 9 2018 nil nil nil)
  apply(encode-time (nil nil nil 5 9 2018 nil nil nil))
  eval((apply (function encode-time) (parse-time-string "2018-09-05")) nil)
  elisp--eval-last-sexp(nil)
  eval-last-sexp(nil)
  funcall-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil)
  call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)
  command-execute(eval-last-sexp)

So.. is this a user error.. that elisp is not valid (i.e. nil not allowed
in that list)?
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Kaushal Modi