Subject: bug#24913: closed (Re: bug#24913: 25.1.50; Emacs accepts undocumented and confusing combinations of &optional and &rest in argument lists)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 17:38:02 +0000

Your bug report

#24913: 25.1.50; Emacs accepts undocumented and confusing combinations of &optional and &rest in argument lists

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#24913: 25.1.50; Emacs accepts undocumented and confusing combinations of &optional and &rest in argument lists
From: Philipp Stephani <[email-masked]>
To: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 17:37:26 +0000
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> schrieb am Fr., 18. Nov. 2016 um 10:06 Uhr:

> > From: Philipp Stephani <[email-masked]>
> > Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 12:58:39 +0000
> >
> > Philipp Stephani <[email-masked]> schrieb am Mi., 9. Nov. 2016
> um 22:19 Uhr:
> >
> >  For example:
> >
> >  (funcall (lambda (&optional &rest &rest &optional x) (list x)) 'a)
> >  => ((a))
> >
> >  Obviously here the &rest keyword "wins", but I think that's overly
> >  confusing. Such an argument list is most likely a programmer mistake,
> >  and should signal an error to make the programmer aware of the mistake.
> >
> > Here's a patch that detects such argument lists.
>
> Thanks, please push to master.
>

Done.

Subject: 25.1.50; Emacs accepts undocumented and confusing combinations of &optional and &rest in argument lists
From: Philipp Stephani <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2016 22:17:54 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

For example:

(funcall (lambda (&optional &rest &rest &optional x) (list x)) 'a)
=> ((a))

Obviously here the &rest keyword "wins", but I think that's overly
confusing.  Such an argument list is most likely a programmer mistake,
and should signal an error to make the programmer aware of the mistake.

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