GNU bug report logs - #47427
26.3; 1. Please define a built-in predicate `plistp', 2. wrong type wrong-type-argument error

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Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 22:28:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 26.3

Fixed in version 29.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 47427 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: "47427 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <47427 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: bug#47427: 26.3; 1. Please define a built-in
 predicate `plistp', 2. wrong type wrong-type-argument error
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 20:27:54 +0200

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> I meant that if we really had an (accurate) error msg
> saying that the plist wasn't proper then in order to
> test that for each `plist-put' or whatever we'd have
> to traverse every plist argument, to see if it really
> is proper.
>
> To test that `(a b c)' isn't a proper plist we'd need
> to check that the number of elements is even.

We are not going to check that, because it wouldn't be
backwards-compatible.

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