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Reported by: Lewis Creary <lewcreary <at> cs.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 21:45:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Tags: notabug
Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #14 received at 66656 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 21:42:25 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Lewis Creary via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
>
> I'm reporting a bug in Gnu emacs lisp, but I'm also reporting a bug in the
> process of reporting emacs lisp bugs. This first bug consists in the fact
> that, in bug reports sent using M-x report-emacs-bug, my email address (lewcreary <at> cs.com, in the
> "from:" field of the email), would have been mangled into a somewhat similar, but different, address
> in the process of submitting the report. As a result, any acknowledgment email intended for me (but
> sent to the mangled address) would not reach me, but would
> instead generate a "no such person" mailing error.
AFAIK, this should not happen. In particular, this response email,
where the To: header was produced by my MUA, has your correct
unmangled email address.
> The main bug I'm reporting consists in the fact that recently, when I tried
> to test the lisp function displayed just below, I triggered the lisp error
> message "`let' bindings can have only one value-form", when it is clear from inspection of the let* form
> in question that no such bug exists. The let* form in question does have just one value-form, the lisp
> variable
> eight-powr-sum..
As Steve points out, the first binding includes an error, a typo,
where { was used instead of (.
I see no Emacs bug here.
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