Re: wrong type error in local variables

[Douglas Lewan <d.lewan2000@gmail.com>]

On 7/2/20 10:00 PM, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text 
editor wrote:
> Douglas Lewan wrote:
>
>>> Okay, but what exactly is the problem with it,
>>> from Lisp?
>> The problem is that it changes the buffer.
>>
>> If a (find-file) fails and you were depending on
>> the change of the current buffer all kinds of other
>> things might go wrong.
>>
>> If you use (find-file-noselect), then the current
>> buffer doesn't change and any attempt to use that
>> buffer would fail. In particular, you should be
>> verifying that the (find-file-noselect) succeeded.
> Gotcha, but then why not just have a single such
> function that does the checking itself and aborts
> further execution immediately after the initial,
> failed attempt to find the file? Then 1 (onee)
> function would be used, and with no need to
> explicitely check if it succeeded?

I understand. Such a solution has already been proposed here. I'm just 
responding to the world we currently live in. And, yes, encapsulation of 
such issues is a reasonable thing.

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,Doug
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