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Re: false warnings when compiling with lexical-binding and cl-lib.


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: false warnings when compiling with lexical-binding and cl-lib.
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 13:08:35 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

>> Also the warning is only at compile time, should we return an error on
>> evaluation ?

I don't see why we should bother with an error.

   (let* ((a 1) (a 2)) ...)

is not very useful, but it's not an error.  The warning we currently
have is not perfect because it applies to the post-macroexpansion code,
so the user may not immediately understand what's going on, but your
suggested patch has the following downsides:
- it breaks previously working code.
- it does not tell you where (approximate line number) the error is located.
So if we want to improve on the current code, I think rather than
`cl-assert' we should use macroexp--warn-and-return (grep for it to see
sample uses).  But the patch won't be as trivial.


        Stefan



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