Re: non-nil not valid any more?

[Michael Heerdegen]

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> IIRC it was possible to write something like
>
> (if non-nil (message "%s" "Wahr")(message "%s" "Falsch"))
>
> Now get
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable non-nil)

Are you sure it wasn't quoted:

  (if 'non-nil (message "%s" "Wahr")(message "%s" "Falsch"))

or did you define the symbol `non-nil' as a variable (with a non-nil
value)?  :non-nil would work, too.

Michael.