GNU bug report logs - #79380
31.0.50; Flymake does not check Elisp code anymore

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Message #17 received at 79380 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>
Cc: 79380 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, mail <at> daniel-mendler.de
Subject: Re: bug#79380: 31.0.50; Flymake does not check Elisp code anymore
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2025 19:03:02 +0300

> From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>
> Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 11:45:12 -0400
> Cc: mail <at> daniel-mendler.de, 79380 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
>  Shouldn't the tests of the value of the user option use stringp
>  instead of null?
> 
> Is that the convention?  I always feel like it's better to test for null explicitly, so that if the user sets the
> variable to a symbol or list or something they get an error which can help them track down their mistake.

I don't think this is about conventions.  In this specific case, any
value that is not a string will signal an error in
elisp-flymake-byte-compile--executable, exactly like nil did in the
patch that was installed.  So I think any value that is not a string
should be handled as nil (in addition to the checking of strings that
the code already does).

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