bug#34104: 26.1; Inaccurate error report of (sort "cba" #'<)

[Philipp Stephani]

Am Mi., 16. Jan. 2019 um 15:54 Uhr schrieb <mail@xuchunyang.me>:
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> Eval (sort "cba" #'<) gives
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> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument sequencep "cba")
>   sort("cba" <)
>   eval((sort "cba" (function <)) nil)
>   elisp--eval-last-sexp(nil)
>   eval-last-sexp(nil)
>   funcall-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil)
>   call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)
>   command-execute(eval-last-sexp)
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> the error is inaccurate since "cba" is indeed a sequence
>
> (sequencep "cba")
> ;; => t
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> it should report "cba" is not a list or vector instead.
>


Here's a patch.

0001-Improve-error-data-when-passing-a-wrong-type-to-sort.txt
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