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Not possible to insert an empty vtable

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Message #8 received at 69454 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Eric Marsden <eric.marsden <at> risk-engineering.org>,
 Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, Adam Porter <adam <at> alphapapa.net>
Cc: 69454 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#69454: Not possible to insert an empty vtable
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2024 10:54:43 +0200

> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 15:29:11 +0100
> From: Eric Marsden <eric.marsden <at> risk-engineering.org>
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The following generates an error. It seems to me that it would be 
> preferable to insert the header line and show zero rows for the vtable.
> 
>     (require 'vtable)
>     (make-vtable :columns '("tweedle" "dum") :objects (list))
> 
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-number-of-arguments #<subr max> 0)
>    max()
>    apply(max nil)
>    seq-max(nil)

I'm not sure we want to support zero-size vtables.  A better error
message would be nice, though.  What do others think?

P.S. Adam, I took the liberty of adding you to this discussion, since
you seem lately to be interested in vtable.

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