bug#20241: 25.0.50; `setq' with only one argument

[Nicolas Richard]

Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com> writes:

>> We won't see any problem in our own sources, because all the occurrences
>> here have been expunged.  Any problems will be with external libraries
>> (or possibly in *ELPA) which people expect just to download, compile and
>> run.  I think that was what Artur is worried about.
>
> Since we're going with this, I quickly grepped 4 occurrences on
> elpa/packages (didn't try the external branches). We should probably
> fix those too:
>
> ./hydra/hydra-test.el:1312:              (setq current-prefix-arg)
> ./tiny/tiny.el:364:                             (setq expect-fun)
> ./gnorb/gnorb-registry.el:294:    (setq id )
> ./context-coloring/benchmark/fixtures/subr.el:1448:     ,@(mapcar
> (lambda (binder) `(setq ,@binder)) binders)

I just looked at this one, and the docstring says :

    Each element of BINDERS is a list (SYMBOL VALUEFORM) which binds
    [...]

so IIUC it is correct.

-- 
Nico.