GNU bug report logs - #27325
Using '&rest' without a trailing parameter causes an error in emacs 26.0.50

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: isaac lewis <isaac.b.lewis <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 07:24:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug, wontfix

Done: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 27325 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: isaac lewis <isaac.b.lewis <at> gmail.com>, 27325 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27325: Using '&rest' without a trailing parameter causes an
 error in emacs 26.0.50
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 06:52:10 -0400

tags 27325 notabug wontfix
close 27325
quit

Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> "The keyword &rest (which must be followed by a single
> argument name) indicates that any number of arguments can follow."
> i.e. the parameter after &rest isn't optional.

I'm therefore closing this bug.  Note that omitting the parameter
doesn't work with edebug even in Emacs versions 25 and earlier (which
was the main motivation to make Emacs 26 more strict about this, if I
remember correctly).
This bug report was last modified 8 years and 56 days ago.

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