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24.1; CL argument list error

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From: Joe Wells <jbwells <at> blueyonder.co.uk>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.1; CL argument list error
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:44:06 +0100

Dear Emacs maintainers and bug fixers,

In Emacs 22.1, evaluating

  (funcall (function* (lambda ((x . y)) (cons y x))) '(1 . 2))

returns (2 . 1), as expected and documented.

In Emacs 24.1, evaluating the above sexp yields this error message:

  Wrong type argument: listp, y

This happens because

  (cl--make-usage-args '((x . y)))

recursively descends into it argument list and evaluates this:

  (memq '&cl-defs '(x . y))

In the older Emacs, cl--make-usage-args did not even exist and only a
simpler portion of its code is present instead of the call to
cl--make-usage-args.  In particular, the recursive descent is missing.

I hope this bug report is somehow helpful.

By the way, I have personally worked around the bug by disabling
cl--make-usage-args completely, which is okay because it is only used
to build a doc string for the anonymous function.  I disabled it like
this:

  (defadvice cl--make-usage-args (around jbw-fix-brokenness activate))

-- 
With my best wishes,

Joe Wells

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 of 2012-06-12 on jove
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Message #10 received at 11719-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Joe Wells <jbwells <at> blueyonder.co.uk>
Cc: 11719-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11719: 24.1; CL argument list error
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 00:24:57 -0400

Version: 24.2

>   (funcall (function* (lambda ((x . y)) (cons y x))) '(1 . 2))
> returns (2 . 1), as expected and documented.
> In Emacs 24.1, evaluating the above sexp yields this error message:
>   Wrong type argument: listp, y

Should be fixed now, thank you,


        Stefan

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