Subject: bug#40968: 28.0.50; (apply nil)

From: Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 13:49:13 +0200

6 maj 2020 kl. 13.25 skrev Pip Cet <[email-masked]>:

> The obvious single-character patch results in four warnings when
> rebuilding Emacs, all of which seem to use the previous semantics, so
> I think it might be best to document this behavior and simply catch
> (apply nil).

There is one in cl-generic-tests.el, too.
It appears in one GNU ELPA package as well, and in one other external package where it seems to be a misunderstanding of apply:

(cl-defun nim-log (&rest msg-and-rest)
  (apply `((lambda () (lwarn 'nim :debug ,@msg-and-rest)))))