GNU bug report logs - #11782
24.1; closure is not self-quoting

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Christopher Schmidt <christopher <at> ch.ristopher.com>

Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:52:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.1

Done: Christopher Schmidt <christopher <at> ch.ristopher.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #28 received at 11782-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Christopher Schmidt <christopher <at> ch.ristopher.com>
To: 11782-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11782: 24.1; closure is not self-quoting
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 08:05:38 +0100 (BST)

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>     In Emacs Lisp, such a list is valid as an expression--it evaluates
>     to itself.
>
> Clearly this doc needs to be fixed since it confuses lambda
> expressions and lambda values and while this conflation mostly worked
> in dynamic binding, it does not work any more in the presence of
> closures.  I just installed the patch below.

Thanks a lot!

        Christopher
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