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From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problem understanding font-lock-defaults structure
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:25:54 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <gcjq2m$c9m$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48ED5632.9050102@gmail.com>

Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> Xah wrote:
...
>> (setq myKeywordsLevel1
>>  (quote
>>    ("Sin\\|Cos" . font-lock-function-name-face)
>>    ("π\\|∞" . font-lock-constant-face)
>>    ("x\\|y" . font-lock-variable-name-face)
>>  )
>> )
> 
> Could it be that the `quote' just takes one argument?

Indeed.  Is it a bug that quote does not signal "Wrong number of
arguments"?  I know that special forms do not necessarily evaluate their
arguments, but neither do macros and eval/apply manages to make sure
that the number of supplied arguments conforms to a macro's argument
list.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA





  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-09  2:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-08 18:46 problem understanding font-lock-defaults structure Xah
2008-10-08 21:22 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
     [not found] ` <mailman.619.1223500981.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-09  0:02   ` Xah
2008-10-09  0:54     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-10-09  2:25       ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
     [not found]       ` <mailman.643.1223519147.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-09 21:18         ` Xah
2008-10-09 11:13     ` Nikolaj Schumacher
     [not found]     ` <mailman.637.1223513718.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-09 15:04       ` Xah
2008-10-09 15:26         ` harven
2008-10-09 17:17           ` Nikolaj Schumacher
     [not found]     ` <mailman.677.1223550826.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-09 15:29       ` Xah
2008-10-09 17:16         ` Nikolaj Schumacher
     [not found]         ` <mailman.719.1223572620.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-09 21:40           ` Xah
2008-10-09 23:27             ` Nikolaj Schumacher
     [not found]             ` <mailman.739.1223594868.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-10  0:20               ` Xah
2008-10-10  0:45             ` Tim X

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