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* txr: bug in handling @{nil ...} variable match.Kaz Kylheku2023-12-171-0/+3
In March 2012, b7f1f4c5bbea86e288b6a4d68595c1d2d07217bd introduced the feature that the @nil variable matches and discards. This was incompletely implemented. Some cases of a nil variable with modifiers fail to match. * match.c (dest_bind): This function must correctly handle the case when pattern is nil: it should just return bindings without extending them. If the pattern is any nonbindable symbol, it should indicate a failed match using t. The logic has not been touched since 2009, at which time an additional bogosity was introduced of calling funcall(testfun, pattern, value) when pattern is a non-bindable symbol. If value is a string, that could never work. Possibly the idea is that the value could come from a symbol-valued expression, such as one producing a keyword symbol. We are not going to support that, unless someone complains. * tests/000/nilvar.txr, tests/000/nilvar.expected: New files, providing a test case that fails without this commit.