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bug#19324: 25.0.50; add-function and nil


From: Leo Liu
Subject: bug#19324: 25.0.50; add-function and nil
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 08:44:11 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (CentOS Linux 7 (Core))

On 2014-12-11 14:11 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> No I don't have a fix for this.
> `add-function' is designed to work on places that only hold functions,
> so any other value (such as nil) will create problems.
>
> IOW a variable that can hold "either nil or a function" is not something
> that add-function supports.
>
> I guess we could treat nil as an alias for `ignore' in the "proxy
> function", which would fix this particular issue.  See patch below.
> But I don't intend to handle all the cases in which a "nil function" can
> show up.  Many/most uses of `foo-function' actually give a special
> meaning to nil which is different from `ignore'.
> So I'm not sure we should cater to this particular case.

Thanks, Stefan, for the explanation. In that case maybe the workaround
isn't needed because we still cannot tell if ORIG is missing. I consider
the bug closed.

Leo





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