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28.2; Unable to Edebug cl-flet form which uses argument destructuring

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Message #142 received at 65344 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: brandon.irizarry <at> gmail.com,
 Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>,
 Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>, 65344 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#65344: 28.2; Unable to Edebug cl-flet form which uses
 argument destructuring
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 08:19:29 +0200

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de> writes:

> Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Difficult.
>>
>> One could of course try filtering out constructs that def-form doesn't
>> like with a preceeding &not, but that's such an effing solution that my
>> arm hairs stand up.  I don't think I'll do that.
>
> Looks like a bad design choice made very early in the development of
> Edebug.  Maybe the developers just didn't expect that this would be used
> inside an &or alternative.

The docs say

   Edebug specifications provide the power of regular expression
   matching, plus some context-free grammar constructs:

I have a hard time imagining that somone with that spiration overlooks
something like what we have here.

I'll submit a new issue for this.

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