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23.0.60; defmacro declare syntax trips up on offsets

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From: "Brent Goodrick" <bgoodr <at> gmail.com>
To: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 1417 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#1417: 23.0.60; defmacro declare syntax trips up on offsets
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:36:43 -0800

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Agreed.  As a "rider clause" to this bug: the debug specification does not
seem to show up in the Elisp Info manual at all.

Thanks Stefan.

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>wrote:

> > (defmacro some-macro (some-directory &rest body-forms)
> >   "Bla bla bla. Yada yada yada."
> >   ;; (declare (indent 1) (debug sexp body))
>                                  ^^^^^^^^^
>                                 (sexp body)
>
> So the real bug is that this error is not caught in
> `macro-declaration-function', and that error messages in Edebug's
> parsing code are user-unfriendly.
>
>
>        Stefan
>

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