GNU bug report logs - #69533
30.0.50; Wrong byte compilation of a certain apply syntax

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>

Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 01:52:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 30.0.50

Done: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: 69533 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Subject: bug#69533: 30.0.50; Wrong byte compilation of a certain apply syntax
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2024 06:13:05 +0100

Michael Heerdegen via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife
of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> writes:

> (byte-optimize-apply '(apply '(+ 1 2)))
>  ==> (funcall '(+ 1 2) '+ '1 '2) ; Ouch!

I'm adding Mattias to the discussion - he had changed
`byte-optimize-apply' after this new convention (which I find
irritating, too) had been introduced.

I guess since byte compilation of such forms is (at least partly)
broken, not many people are actually using it.

Michael.
This bug report was last modified 1 year and 162 days ago.

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