Agreed.  As a "rider clause" to this bug: the debug specification does not
seem to show up in the Elisp Info manual at all.

Thanks Stefan.

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>wrote:

> > (defmacro some-macro (some-directory &rest body-forms)
> >   "Bla bla bla. Yada yada yada."
> >   ;; (declare (indent 1) (debug sexp body))
>                                  ^^^^^^^^^
>                                 (sexp body)
>
> So the real bug is that this error is not caught in
> `macro-declaration-function', and that error messages in Edebug's
> parsing code are user-unfriendly.
>
>
>        Stefan
>