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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9c4e309: Check that variable lists are actually
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9c4e309: Check that variable lists are actually lists |
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Thu, 19 Jan 2017 11:40:16 -0500 |
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> 'let' and 'let*' document that their first argument has to be a list,
> but don't check for that; instead, they allow (and silently ignore)
> other types. Introduce an explicit type check.
Notice that this may end up breaking currently working code :-(
The way we've generally handled such issues is basically that if the
programmer wants sanity checks, he should byte-compile his code.
This has two corollaries:
- We should make sure that the *byte-compiler* does warn about
ill-formed code (we currently don't do a great job of that).
- The interpreter can do whatever it wants with ill-formed code and
doesn't need to go out of its way to detect it.
Stefan
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