bug#4616: 23.1.50; empty script files

[Andreas Schwab]

Markus Rost <rost@math.uni-bielefeld.de> writes:

> Execute an Emacs script file with no actual lisp code in it, like this:
>
> ===File ~/x.el==============================================
> #!/home/rost/build/cvs/emacs/src/emacs --script
>
> ============================================================
>
> One gets an error:
>
> End of file during parsing: /home/rost/x.el
>
> Same problem if the file has some additional ";"-commented lines in it.

The Emacs Lisp reader always requires at least one sexp in the input.
This is independent of the source of the input.

Andreas.

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