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bug#40968: 28.0.50; (apply nil)
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#40968: 28.0.50; (apply nil) |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Sep 2020 23:00:18 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> as implying that (apply FUNCTION) is equivalent to (funcall FUNCTION)
I think the current half-broken semantics is a fairly
natural generalization:
(apply ... ARGS)
is equivalent to
(funcall ... ,@ARGS)
so when `...` is empty it means that
(apply ARGS)
should be equivalent to
(funcall ,@ARGS)
aka
(apply (car ARGS) (cdr ARGS))
When ARGS is the empty list we should probably signal an error (just
like (apply (car ARGS) (cdr ARGS)) would, BTW).
Stefan