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Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org> writes:

>       (catch 'error
>         (car))
>       ;;(debug)
>       (print (format "debug-on-error = %s" debug-on-error))
>       (catch 'error
>         (car)))
>
> I get one "foo" from my-debug, then "debug-on-error = t", and then the
> error "Wrong number of arguments: #<subr car>, 0".
>
> Why isn't my-debug called twice?

I don't know.  But interestingly it works correctly in the
_interpreter_ in XEmacs (the byte-compiler doesn't compile the first
catch form correctly).

-- 
Jesper Harder                                <http://purl.org/harder/>