Subject: bug#47550: [PATCH] elisp mode doesn't support non-list argument lists

From: Vasilij Schneidermann <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2021 18:18:21 +0200

When I've tried porting existing elisp code, I've found that `(defun foo
nil 1)` errors out (on Guile 3 and master) , but `(defun foo () 1)`
doesn't. The following patch rectifies this by treating `nil` the same
as `()` when compiling a lambda.
From f3a7bd452e476f5769972ab2cac6da1cf4997c4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vasilij Schneidermann <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2021 18:05:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] elisp: Handle nil argument list

* module/language/elisp/compile-tree.scm (parse-lambda-list): Handle nil
the same as ().
---
 module/language/elisp/compile-tree-il.scm | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/module/language/elisp/compile-tree-il.scm b/module/language/elisp/compile-tree-il.scm
index 0334e6f33..adbeb2005 100644
--- a/module/language/elisp/compile-tree-il.scm
+++ b/module/language/elisp/compile-tree-il.scm
@@ -259,6 +259,7 @@
   (define (%match lst null optional rest symbol)
     (pmatch lst
       (() (null))
+      (nil (null))
       ((&optional . ,tail) (optional tail))
       ((&rest . ,tail) (rest tail))
       ((,arg . ,tail) (guard (symbol? arg)) (symbol arg tail))
-- 
2.31.1