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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
Cc: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why malformed let-form is silently accepted?
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 17:02:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwva95zffgm.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54186C56.5080208@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Antipov's message of "Tue, 16 Sep 2014 20:59:02 +0400")

> (let 1) ==> eval: Wrong type argument: sequencep, 1
> (let [1 2 3 4]) ==> nil ???

I don't think the behavior matters much when we pass invalid code to
`eval'.  OTOH it's important that we report it when byte-compiling it.


        Stefan "`eval' is just a crutch needed for bootstrapping"



  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-16 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-16 16:59 Why malformed let-form is silently accepted? Dmitry Antipov
2014-09-16 21:02 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-09-16 21:52   ` David Kastrup
2014-09-16 23:47 ` Stephen J. Turnbull

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