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Re: check-parens
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VanL |
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Re: check-parens |
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Wed, 04 Sep 2019 01:19:24 +1000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (berkeley-unix) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> the following snippet errors:
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>> (member CHAR (list ?r ?))
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> Of course, a paren is missing.
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>> but check-parens doesn't signal it.
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> Indeed, but the byte-compiler does:
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> foo.el:5:1:Warning: unescaped character literals `?)' detected,
> `?\)' expected!
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>> Worth a bug-report?
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> Probably not: it's a known problem.
Would be nice for the cgit/emacs.git webpage to have a section listing
vintage bugs and bugs on low hanging fruit with notes collected from
visitors.
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