-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 07:59:04PM +0000, Joshua Branson wrote: > > I can confirm this bug. Eshell accepts (defun hello nil (print “Hello")) > And (hello) works properly. > > M-x guiler > > ,languages elisp > > (defun hello nil (print “Hello”)) doesn’t work. > > Joshua > > P.S. I didn’t even know (define function nil …) was a thing in elisp land.
No, no. It's not (defun nil) -- it's (defun foo nil ...), which, if you squint a bit is the same (in Lisp!) as (defun foo () ...) -- defining function foo with an empty argument list. This is a perfectly respectable thing to do. That's because, for Lisp, nil, '() and false are all one and the same. Scheme is pickier here, and I'd imagine that this is the reflection of one of those translation pains. But I don't know enough about Guile's elisp implementation to be sure (ah, I wish I had the time for that...) regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAljU5J0ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kY2SACffmA4jJ06fft6EBCbhm3m7Zwj 8Y8AnitudhEOZQjCzsa/tu29vFtNEFhZ =0umF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
