Re: [PATCH]

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Neil,

Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:

> I have a program that calls (read-elisp) in a loop, to read in a BBDB
> file.  When it gets to the end of the file, the next (read-elisp) throws
> an error (wrong type arg, pair expected), and the attached patch makes
> it return '*eoi* instead.
>
> Is that correct?

‘get-lexer/1’ can return '*eoi*, so yes, I think.

> Is *eoi* better than #<eof> here?

I don’t think so, since it’s the result returned by ‘read-elisp’, whose
callers shouldn’t see '*eoi*.  So I think ‘get-expression’ should return
the EOF object when it encounters '*eoi*.

Besides, you might want to check if it’s fixed in the elisp branch, who
knows.  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.