On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 3:05 PM, Noam Postavsky wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 2:42 PM, Ken Raeburn wrote: > >> But even if we do make it an error, isn’t there usually a stage where it’s just a warning? > > Maybe. There hasn't been this time (for plain defun, I mean). As another case, there wasn't any warning stage for changing setq to only accept an even number of arguments. >> (And if we’re going to make that sort of thing an error, we should probably check whether empty &key or &aux variable lists are similarly rejected. I haven’t looked.) > > I believe empty &key would be tested in my patch, though not &aux. Updated patch which handles &aux as well. I also tested a bootstrap (doing this I found the previous patch messed up some positive cases).