Re: why does `variable-at-point' return 0?

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 23:52, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:

> That's most likely the reason, so as not to get tripped up by a variable
> whose name happens to be "nil" (unlikely in Lisp, admittedly).

`variable-at-point' is used five times in the lisp/* sources, and in
every case there's a check like

  (and (symbolp val) val)

or

  (if (eq val 0) nil val)

so it seems like v-a-p needs an upgrade.

    Juanma