(quote a b) discards argument

(quote a b) discards argument

[Michael Schierl]

Hello,

I don't know if this is a bug or a documentation bug. If I evaluate
(quote a b) this results in 'a and does not throw an error. Usually you
do not use the quote function anyway (since writing ' is more
convenient) but when editing code that was written out by `print', it
happened to me that I accidentally removed one paren too much...

C-h f quote tells:

----8<----
quote is a special form in `C source code'.
(quote arg)

Return the argument, without evaluating it.  `(quote x)' yields `x'.
---->8----

So I expected it to have thrown an error if two or more arguments are
specified, otherwise the documentation should be something like

----8<----
quote is a special form in `C source code'.
(quote arg &rest ignore)

Return the argument, without evaluating it.  `(quote x)' yields `x'.
Additional arguments are ignored, if present.
---->8----


Michael




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Re: (quote a b) discards argument

[Richard Stallman]

I made this give an error.
Thanks.