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> and get rid of a lot of wrong-type-arguments errors at runtime like which ones?

• throwaway81523 4y ago
  If you have used Emacs for any length of time you will have run into them now and then. The usual sort is when something is expected to be a value but instead it is nil, the equivalent of a null pointer exception. It's hard to give examples because if there was a reproducible one that happened often enough to remember, it would go through the bug fix process. Instead it just happens enough to be annoying. I guess gnus.el is a common subsystem where it happens a lot, say if a remote server is down.
  • medo-bear 4y ago
    for past 5 years, 90% of things i do is done in emacs. type errors have never been an annoyance to me and i do not recall comming across them at all. thats why i asked. pitty you can't give me an example