* lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-macs.el (cl-transform-lambda): Don't add spurious

parens around the arg list.

Fixes: debbugs:11499

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index b1d9323e481..fca6543072c 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2012-05-17  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
+
+        * emacs-lisp/cl-macs.el (cl-transform-lambda): Don't add spurious
+        parens around the arg list (bug#11499).
+
 2012-05-17  Juri Linkov  <juri@jurta.org>
 
         * isearch.el (word-search-regexp, word-search-backward)
diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-macs.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-macs.el
index 8050da400fe..66fafb9ba41 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-macs.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-macs.el
@@ -318,8 +318,9 @@ It is a list of elements of the form either:
                         (require 'help-fns)
                         (cons (help-add-fundoc-usage
                                (if (stringp (car hdr)) (pop hdr))
-                               (format "(fn %S)"
-                                       (cl--make-usage-args orig-args)))
+                               (format "%S"
+                                       (cons 'fn
+                                             (cl--make-usage-args orig-args))))
                               hdr)))
                     (list (nconc (list 'let* bind-lets)
                                  (nreverse bind-forms) body)))))))