Subject: bug#77923: closed (Re: bug#77923: 30.1; intern raises error when called with optional argument)

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Date: Sat, 03 May 2025 08:19:02 +0000

Your bug report

#77923: 30.1; intern raises error when called with optional argument

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#77923: 30.1; intern raises error when called with optional argument
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
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Date: Sat, 03 May 2025 11:18:09 +0300
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> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2025 15:57:35 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
> 
> tags 77923 notabug
> thanks
> 
> > Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2025 15:26:46 +0300
> > From:  Nil Geisweiller via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> >  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email-masked]>
> > 
> > Evaluating the expression below, using for instance M-:
> > 
> > (intern "abc" [nil])
> > 
> > raises the following error
> > 
> > (wrong-type-argument obarrayp [nil])
> > 
> > On the other hand, under Emacs 29.4, it outputs abc as expected.
> 
> It's a deliberate change in Emacs 30, see NEWS.  You need to pass a
> real obarray.  Use obarray-make to create one.

No further comments, so I'm now closing this non-bug.

Subject: 30.1; intern raises error when called with optional argument
From: Nil Geisweiller <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2025 15:26:46 +0300
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Evaluating the expression below, using for instance M-:

(intern "abc" [nil])

raises the following error

(wrong-type-argument obarrayp [nil])

On the other hand, under Emacs 29.4, it outputs abc as expected.

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