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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Sora Firestorm <robert@cochranmail.com>
Cc: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>,
	Robert Cochran <robert-emacs@cochranmail.com>,
	23957@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#23957: [PATCH] Make fboundp an alias for symbol-function
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 20:10:00 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7fd05844-b6aa-4c8b-9c84-97fb56acbcde@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8760savf1s.fsf@cochranmail.com>

> >> I'd suggest to simply remove the FIXME instead.
> >
> > I'd be somewhat curious about who wrote it and why.  Maybe
> > there is something else that could be done to satisfy whatever
> > the perceived need was.
> 
> I just did a blame for that line, and it lead back to commit eadf1faa
> ("Conflate Qnil and Qunbound for `symbol-function'.") by Stefan Monnier
> <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> (CC'd).

Yes, well, perhaps Stefan will chime in with the reason(s) for it.

But to my mind the simple action "Conflate Qnil and Qunbound for
`symbol-function'" sounds like it is about doing something to
`symbol-function' rather than doing something to `fboundp'.

It is the behavior (hence meaning) of `fboundp' that changes
if you set it as an alias for `symbol-function'.  The latter's
behavior does not change.





  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-12 20:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-12  7:08 bug#23957: [PATCH] Make fboundp an alias for symbol-function Robert Cochran
2016-07-12 16:13 ` Drew Adams
2016-07-12 17:40   ` Philipp Stephani
2016-07-12 17:49     ` Drew Adams
2016-07-12 19:11       ` Robert Cochran
2016-07-12 20:06         ` Drew Adams
2016-07-12 23:02           ` Robert Cochran
2016-07-13  2:14             ` Drew Adams
2016-07-12 19:20       ` Sora Firestorm
2016-07-12 20:10         ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-07-12 20:35     ` Stefan Monnier
2016-07-13  5:35       ` Robert Cochran
2016-07-14 22:53         ` Robert Cochran

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