From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#33294: xwidget-insert crashes Emacs Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2018 13:09:12 -0500 Message-ID: References: <838t25cxft.fsf@gnu.org> <8336sccgob.fsf@gnu.org> <83wopnbp5s.fsf@gnu.org> <877ehntu92.fsf@gmail.com> <83sh0bbe52.fsf@gnu.org> <83r2fubsq1.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1541786923 13332 195.159.176.226 (9 Nov 2018 18:08:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 18:08:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cc: gazally@runbox.com, lg.zevlg@gmail.com, rpluim@gmail.com, 33294@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 09 19:08:38 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gLBCu-0003IZ-9b for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2018 19:08:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35417 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gLBF0-0000zV-8P for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2018 13:10:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43480) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gLBEr-0000yY-SX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2018 13:10:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gLBEI-00051P-OL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2018 13:10:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:39650) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gLBEI-00050y-FS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2018 13:10:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gLBEI-0003GR-9H for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2018 13:10:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2018 18:10:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 33294 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 33294-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B33294.154178699312527 (code B ref 33294); Fri, 09 Nov 2018 18:10:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 33294) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Nov 2018 18:09:53 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43908 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gLBE8-0003Fy-Lm for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2018 13:09:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33367) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gLBE5-0003Fh-Pl for 33294@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2018 13:09:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gLBDz-0004cS-Ig for 33294@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2018 13:09:44 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39680) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gLBDY-0004Ho-TE; Fri, 09 Nov 2018 13:09:18 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gLBDV-0001e0-7C; Fri, 09 Nov 2018 13:09:13 -0500 X-Spook: Outbreak pre-emptive [Hello to all my friends and fans in X-Ran: i-`+`'ANPC6k=1b5ga.$b_R=L~MvM4>rz.47(/tK[b\fU"m-Yx31MP,Y?[@XT{DO#Huv\` X-Hue: magenta X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 09 Nov 2018 08:29:48 -0500") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:152225 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: > The "impossible" category is for when such objects can never be passed > to `type-of`, typically because they are not available to Elisp. > > But there's no harm/risk to "allow" a particular kind of object even if > it's actually impossible for it to be passed to type-of. Pardon my ignorance, but why then is the fallback behaviour on getting an "impossible" type to abort Emacs, rather than eg just throwing an error or returning 'unknown or somesuch?