GNU bug report logs - #79227
30.1.90; run-with-timer should error if REPEAT is not a number or nil

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>
Cc: 79227-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#79227: 30.1.90; run-with-timer should error if REPEAT is not
 a number or nil
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2025 16:19:39 +0300

> From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>
> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2025 08:55:23 -0400
> Cc: 79227 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 3:56 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>  > Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2025 17:26:14 -0400
>  > From:  Spencer Baugh via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  >  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
>  > 
>  > 
>  > The docstring of run-with-timer says REPEAT must be a number or nil, but
>  > it doesn't error if REPEAT is, for example, t.  This is likely to happen
>  > with run-with-idle-timer accepts REPEAT=t.
> 
>  Thanks, should be fixed now on the master branch.
> 
>  I don't understand your reference to run-with-idle-timer, though: for
>  idle timers, it is perfectly valid to use REPEAT = t.  Did you mean
>  run-with-timer instead?
> 
> I mean when code previously used run-with-idle-timer and is changed to use run-with-timer instead, without
> looking closely at the arguments. 

OK, thanks.  Then I guess we can close this bug now.

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