bug#66656: Bug reports

[Lewis Creary]

I'm reporting a bug in Gnu emacs lisp, but I'm also reporting a bug in the

process of reporting emacs lisp bugs.  This first bug consists in the fact

that, in bug reports sent using M-x report-emacs-bug, my email address (lewcreary@cs.com, in the "from:" field of the email), would have been mangled into a somewhat similar, but different, address in the process of submitting the report.  As a result, any acknowledgment email intended for me (but sent to the mangled address) would not reach me, but would

instead generate a "no such person" mailing error.

The main bug I'm reporting consists in the fact that recently, when I tried

to test the lisp function displayed just below, I triggered the lisp error

message "`let' bindings can have only one value-form", when it is clear from inspection of the let* form in question that no such bug exists.  The let* form in question does have just one value-form, the lisp variable 

 eight-powr-sum..

(defun octal-to-dec (n)

  (let* ((oct-str {number-to-string n)

         (octal-digits (string-to-reverse-numlist oct-str))

         (oct-digit nil)

         (eight-powr-term-val 0)

         (eight-powr-sum 0)

         (indx 0)

         (while-nil-val (while (<= indx (length octal-digits))

           (setq oct-digit (nth indx octal-digits)

                 eight-powr-term-val (* oct-digit (expt 8 indx))

                 eight-powr-sum (+ eight-powr-sum eight-powr-term-val)

                 indx (1+ index) ))) ) ; end of let-variables

     eight-powr-sum )))

Subject: 29.1; "lisp error when there is no error"

In GNU Emacs 29.1 (build 2, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2023-08-02 built on

 AVALON

Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.22621

System Description: Microsoft Windows 10 Home (v10.0.2009.22621.2428)

Configured using:

 'configure --with-modules --without-dbus --with-native-compilation=aot

 --without-compress-install --with-tree-sitter CFLAGS=-O2'

Configured features:

ACL GIF GMP GNUTLS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP

NOTIFY W32NOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF

TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP XPM ZLIB

(NATIVE_COMP present but libgccjit not available)

Important settings:

  value of $LANG: ENU

  locale-coding-system: cp1252

Major mode: ELisp/d