From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [elpa] excorporate.el:257:23:Error: Wrong type argument: listp, start-exco--fsm Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 11:28:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87zipsqtyt.fsf@fx.delysid.org> <577FF235.9040304@cs.ucla.edu> <87eg71myi7.fsf@fx.delysid.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1468164426 9563 80.91.229.3 (10 Jul 2016 15:27:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 15:27:06 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 10 17:26:57 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bMGdF-0005rp-HI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2016 17:26:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55618 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bMGdB-0006vO-Eu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2016 11:26:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44542) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bMGca-0006uG-Ta for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2016 11:26:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bMGcW-0007xE-N9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2016 11:26:15 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:53737) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bMGcW-0007ws-Fg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2016 11:26:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bMGcV-0005ZD-3k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2016 17:26:11 +0200 Original-Received: from 69-165-156-121.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.165.156.121]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2016 17:26:11 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-165-156-121.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2016 17:26:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-165-156-121.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VIC31BV1JVgtygZGMG32QD017NY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:205507 Archived-At: > This looks wrong. it seems to indicate that somewhere else there's > a confusion between a value and an expression. Actually no, it looks correct. After all `sleep` is itself an expression (i.e. if you use (define-state-machine foo :sleep (+ x y)) the (+ x y) is not executed at macro-expansion time but at subsequent run-time), so you indeed want to return an expression and not a value, hence the need to quote the lambda. Stefan