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Message #21 received at 66656-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 66656-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Lewis Creary <lewcreary <at> cs.com>
Subject: Re: bug#66656: Bug reports
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2023 06:57:05 -0800

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> 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.

I'm therefore closing this bug report.

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