GNU bug report logs - #24649
24.5; Why no standard error for "Trailing garbage following expression"?

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 18:04:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed, patch

Found in version 24.5

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #23 received at 24649 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 24649 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com
Subject: Re: bug#24649: 24.5; Why no standard error for "Trailing garbage
 following expression"?
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 10:16:04 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> > +	    xsignal1 (Qinvalid_read_syntax,
>> > +		      build_string ("Trailing garbage following expression"));
>> 
>> There weren't any comments, so I've now applied this.  If somebody has a
>> better idea for the error signal, please amend.
>
> Thanks, but this change needs to be reflected in the ELisp manual,
> where currently invalid-read-syntax is documented for a different use
> case.

Let's see...  Qargs_out_of_range would be inappropriate...  And
Qwrong_type_argument...  Perhaps the closest one of the predefined
errors would be Qend_of_file?

Or we could have a new one.  `garbage-follows-expression'?  That's
pretty explicit.

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