bug#69470: bug in cl-return-from

[Robert Boyer <robertstephenboyer@gmail.com>]

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Got it.  Thank you so very much.

Bob


On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 10:59 AM Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org> wrote:

> Robert Boyer <robertstephenboyer@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > It is almost certainly a bug in the definition of cl-return-from that
> the following
> > does not work.  I have no idea whether it is possible to fix.  Could be
> really hard
> > or undesirable to fix.  I know nothing.
> >
> > Emacs is great beyond words.
> >
> > Thanks so much,
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >   (defun foo () (cl-return-from foo 3))
> >   (foo)
> >
> > I strongly believe that in Common Lisp, every (defun foo ...) wraps
> > a block named foo around the ...
>
> Hi Bob,
>
> unfortunately or not, this is elisp not CL :)
>
> If you want to do that the following works:
>
> (cl-defun foo () (cl-return-from foo 3))
> (foo) => 3
>
> Best Regards
>
>   Andrea
>

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