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bug#66656: Bug reports
From: |
Stephen Berman |
Subject: |
bug#66656: Bug reports |
Date: |
Sat, 21 Oct 2023 00:06:55 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
On Fri, 20 Oct 2023 21:42:25 +0000 (UTC) Lewis Creary via "Bug reports for GNU
Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
[...]
> 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 )))
The error is because the first let-binding binds `oct-str' to both
`{number-to-string' and `n'. I guess `{' is a typo for `(' and there
should also be a closing `)': `(oct-str (number-to-string n))'.
Steve Berman