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: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 40968 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40968: 28.0.50; (apply nil)
Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 06:53:15 +0000

enterOn Wed, May 6, 2020 at 6:42 PM Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org> wrote:
> That patch is fine but perhaps incomplete, if we want (apply nil) to result in the same error when interpreted and byte-compiled.

It is incomplete. However, I've yet to find an elegant way to fix the
byte compiler and get it to emit the right error message. Can you
think of one?

(apply nil) is easy to fix, of course, but (apply
(function-returning-nil)) is more difficult.
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