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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes:
>
>> When byte-compiling Gnus, I see the message from subject.  It comes
>> from gnus-msg.el, line 1497 or so, if I'm not mistaken.=20
>
> This code:
>
> 	  (condition-case ()
> 	      (pp `(setq ,(car olist)
> 			 ,(if (or (consp (setq sym (symbol-value (car olist))))
> 				  (and (symbolp sym)
> 				       (not (or (eq sym nil)
> 						(eq sym t)))))
> 			      (list 'quote (symbol-value (car olist)))
> 			    (symbol-value (car olist))))
> 		  (current-buffer))
> 	    (error
> 	     (format "(setq %s 'whatever)\n" (car olist))))
>
> First of all -- I have no idea why that `condition-case' is the way
> it is.  I didn't know that `format' had any effect?  Does it?=20=20

It doesn't.  And that seems to be the point of the overly cleverly
worded warning.  It think the warning says

  "you want a side-effect there, but 'format' ain't gonna do it for you"

- Hari
--=20
Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ harinath@cs.umn.edu