Dominique Pellé wrote:

> > Christian Brabandt <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Bram,
> > > while debugging the xdiff test, I stumbled about the error message
> > > E685: Internal error: set_var()
> > >
> > > That was me, trying to clear v:errors, but unfortunately I thought
> > > v:errors are of type string, while it is a list type. So the first time
> > > :let v:errors=''
> > > failed with the above error, while on the next try, it actually
> > > succeeded. That is actually a bit confusing and just after hunting the
> > > set_var() message, I actually found out what I did wrong :(
> > >
> > > So can we please make this something more obvious, e.g. like this:
> > >
> > > diff --git a/src/eval.c b/src/eval.c
> > > index 7dfb98125..dd0164f04 100644
> > > --- a/src/eval.c
> > > +++ b/src/eval.c
> > > @@ -7568,7 +7568,10 @@ set_var(
> > >                 return;
> > >             }
> > >             else if (v->di_tv.v_type != tv->v_type)
> > > -               internal_error("set_var()");
> > > +           {
> > > +               internal_error("set_var(): wrong type!");
> > > +               return;
> > > +           }
> > >         }
> > >
> > >         clear_tv(&v->di_tv);
> >
> > Any internal error is a bug, so I don't think that   let v:errors=''
> > should give an internal error, it should give a regular error.
> 
> For the record, this one also gives an internal error E685:
> 
> $ vim --clean -c "let v:oldfiles=''"

Now gives:

        E963: setting v:oldfiles to value with wrong type


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