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bug#35238: 27.0.50; Clarify eventp behaviour with booleans


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: bug#35238: 27.0.50; Clarify eventp behaviour with booleans
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 19:42:46 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> As mentioned in a past commit[1], nil is not an event.
> Since the car of a mouse click event is considered its type,
> shouldn't (nil) also be rejected as an event?

Not sure it's worth the trouble (there are already lots of other objects
that aren't events but for which eventp returns non-nil).

> Should t be counted as an event?
>
>   (eventp t)    ; => t
>   (eventp '(t)) ; => t

Not sure if we ever generate such an event, but what would be the
benefit of rejecting it?


        Stefan





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