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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@permabit.com>
Cc: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>,
	29165@debbugs.gnu.org,
	Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: bug#29165: 26.0.90; can't use some code byte-compiled under emacs 24
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 11:31:53 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c27b3b4b-8220-47e2-bf72-a77960bc0e2e@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5C8038D7-FF85-4C42-A728-F3F85CDAC85C@permabit.com>

> > CL accepts a single variable after &rest. And there must be
> > a variable after &optional.  (&optional foo &rest bar) is OK.
> >
> > (&optional &rest foo) is not OK.
> > (&optional foo &rest bar toto titi) is not OK.
> 
> Is this CL in general or a particular CL implementation? The web page you
> sent the URL for earlier reads like a specification, and from its use of
> “*” looks to me like it allows the (admittedly useless) form of &optional
> with no variables.

What I wrote was from memory.  What counts is the definition
of CL.  If it doesn't forbid such constructions then an
implementation or emulation) of CL is free to support them.

If it doesn't define them then an implementation is free
to define them any way it wants.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-11-06 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-06  6:57 bug#29165: 26.0.90; can't use some code byte-compiled under emacs 24 Ken Raeburn
2017-11-06 12:44 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-11-06 14:24   ` Drew Adams
2017-11-06 14:35     ` Noam Postavsky
2017-11-06 14:40       ` Drew Adams
2017-11-06 17:20         ` Philipp Stephani
2017-11-06 17:25         ` Ken Raeburn
2017-11-06 18:10           ` Andreas Schwab
2017-11-06 19:10             ` Ken Raeburn
2017-11-06 19:16               ` Noam Postavsky
2017-11-13 18:06                 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-11-13 19:42                   ` Ken Raeburn
2017-11-13 20:05                     ` Noam Postavsky
2017-11-27 22:24                       ` Noam Postavsky
2017-12-13 22:36                         ` Noam Postavsky
2017-12-15 16:48                           ` Glenn Morris
2017-12-16  4:54                             ` Noam Postavsky
2018-01-20 22:10                               ` Noam Postavsky
2018-01-21  3:02                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-01-21 16:04                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-21 16:30                                   ` Noam Postavsky
2018-01-21 18:01                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-25 15:32                                       ` Noam Postavsky
2017-12-13 23:39                       ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-15  1:16                         ` Noam Postavsky
2017-12-15  3:04                           ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-15  5:17                             ` Ken Raeburn
2017-12-15 13:54                               ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-06 19:31           ` Drew Adams [this message]
2017-11-06 16:08   ` Eli Zaretskii

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