GNU bug report logs - #25166
It shouldn't be possible to set the function cell of t

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Philipp <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 09:47:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 26.0.50

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #51 received at 25166 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 25166 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#25166: 26.0.50;
 It shouldn't be possible to set the function cell of nil and t
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 12:16:28 -0400

> PS for an example of why singling out nil makes sense (but this
> doesn't apply to t) see [1].
> Summary: (autoload #'nil "something" nil t) silently succeeds but
> makes forward-word, backward-word, etc, (fail to) funcall nil.

Why would someone do (autoload #'nil "something" nil t) ?


        Stefan
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