Re: Jump to autoconf macro documentation

[Kevin Rodgers]

On 1/31/11 3:18 AM, Andrea Crotti wrote:
...
> But why in the "condition-case" I need to do "(error nil)" instead of
> just "nil" when I return false?

As the doc string for condition-case states:

        (condition-case VAR BODYFORM &rest HANDLERS)
        ...
        Each element of HANDLERS looks like (CONDITION-NAME BODY...)

A nil handler is the same as (), which does not specify a CONDITION-NAME to
handle nor a body for the return value.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA