GNU bug report logs - #40968
28.0.50; (apply nil)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 18:27:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 28.0.50

Fixed in version 28.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
To: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 40968 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Subject: bug#40968: 28.0.50; (apply nil)
Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 13:49:13 +0200

6 maj 2020 kl. 13.25 skrev Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>:

> 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)))))
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