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30.0.50; Check keyword args of make-process

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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 65030 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eller.helmut <at> gmail.com, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#65030: 30.0.50; Check keyword args of make-process
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2023 15:18:21 +0200

>>>>> On Tue, 8 Aug 2023 15:05:06 +0200, Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org> said:

    Mattias> 8 aug. 2023 kl. 14.16 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>:
    >> Misspelled arguments to make-process don't elicit errors as of now, do
    >> they?

    Mattias> No and that would be good to fix as well, but we should
    Mattias> first make existing errors understandable.

    Mattias> For example, (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) is not a
    Mattias> human-readable way to say "You forgot the :name parameter
    Mattias> which is actually mandatory despite the docs making this
    Mattias> almost impossible to find out"

Youʼll get no objections from me for that. Perhaps we need a
CHECK_STRING_WITH_MESSAGE macro or similar.

Robert
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