From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Bug? Won't eval an 'if' sexp? Date: 26 Jan 2003 11:01:13 +0100 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200301260948.h0Q9mBe1017135@habitrail.home.fools-errant.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043575248 10455 80.91.224.249 (26 Jan 2003 10:00:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 10:00:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: gnu-emacs-bug@prep.ai.mit.edu Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18cjao-0002iV-00 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 11:00:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18cjc3-0004gS-03 for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 05:02:03 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18cjbn-0004Gc-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 05:01:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18cjbj-00043M-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 05:01:46 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18cjbi-00040u-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 05:01:42 -0500 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18cjbi-0005iT-00 for gnu-emacs-bug@prep.ai.mit.edu; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 05:01:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18cjbd-0003mJ-00 for gnu-emacs-bug@prep.ai.mit.edu; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 05:01:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout09.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.84]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18cjbc-0003ho-00 for gnu-emacs-bug@prep.ai.mit.edu; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 05:01:36 -0500 Original-Received: from fwd09.sul.t-online.de by mailout09.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 18cjbW-0005uq-07; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 11:01:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (520018396234-0001@[62.226.11.161]) by fmrl09.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 18cjbM-18ltPkC; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 11:01:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h0QA1Hl7000645; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 11:01:17 +0100 Original-Received: (from dak@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id h0QA1EDB000641; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 11:01:14 +0100 Original-To: Hacksaw In-Reply-To: <200301260948.h0Q9mBe1017135@habitrail.home.fools-errant.com> Original-Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-Sender: 520018396234-0001@t-dialin.net X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:4317 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:4317 Hacksaw writes: > >Whoever gave you the idea it should? You want to use progn here, not > > Why should lambda not work here? This form, untouched, worked in > emacs 20.7. It should never have worked in the first place, but did so due to an Emacs quirk. lambda is a form supposed to return a function, not execute it. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum