Subject: Re: bug#41864: 28.0.50; funcall: attempting to call a macro does not always complain

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2020 13:02:02 +0200

Nick Dokos <[email-masked]> writes:

> If I attempt the same thing with a macro however, it does not always
> fail:
>
>     (defmacro mac/z () "z")
>     (funcall 'mac/z) ==> fails with Invalid function: mac/z
>     (funcall (function mac/z)) ==> "z"
>
> Should it fail in the last case?

That is indeed pretty odd.

(eq 'mac/z (function mac/z))
=> t

Does anybody here understand what's happening here?  

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