GNU bug report logs - #11847
24.1.50; Error: Don't know how to compile #[nil "..."]

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 03:34:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.1.50

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 11847 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11847: 24.1.50; Error: Don't know how to compile #[nil "..."]
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:26:20 -0400

> But please see my other replies, where I acknowledge that my code does
> call `byte-compile'.  See the question there about whether
> byte-compiling a Lisp file also compiles a sexp (e.g. a defun) inside
> `eval-after-load'.

Byte-compilation is not done within quoted forms (i.e. forms that start
with '), so byte-compilation normally is not done on the code passed to
eval-after-load since that code is usually quoted.

> (and if so whether that is true in older Emacs versions also)

Yes, there has not been any change in this regard.  What has changed is
that byte-compile now complains when it can't do its job, whereas it
used to silently just return nil without doing anything.


        Stefan
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