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Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y


From: Nix
Subject: Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:23:07 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.95 (gnu/linux)

On 27 Apr 2012, Miles Bader uttered the following:
> (1) This particular type of error (nil when string expected) is just
>     as, or even more, likely to occur over the rest of Emacs'
>     execution.

FWIW I saw this error very recently. It turned out to be a magit bug
that could I believe have potentially caused data loss, so I'm very glad
it was diagnosed so I could fix it -- even if it *was* annoying at first
to have to debug this with a crippled (i.e. -Q) emacs.

-- 
NULL && (void)



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