From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 15666@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15666: 24.3.50; regression: `defadvice' of a special form
Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 07:45:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgwc3hch.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6bc447c6-2d04-47d5-9e55-c8e6362fd4c7@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 20 Oct 2013 16:15:25 -0700 (PDT)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> (elisp) `Defining Advice' says that you can use `defadvice' to advise a
> special form. It is quite clear about this:
>
> "Here, FUNCTION is the name of the function (or macro or special form)
> to be advised. From now on, we will write just "function" when
> describing the entity being advised, but this always includes macros
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> and special forms."
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The manual now says:
Special forms (@pxref{Special Forms}) cannot be advised, however macros can
be advised, in much the same way as functions.
And I don't think we want to change this at this point, so I'm closing
this bug report.
--
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-20 23:15 bug#15666: 24.3.50; regression: `defadvice' of a special form Drew Adams
2013-10-20 23:32 ` Drew Adams
2021-05-30 5:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-05-30 14:32 ` bug#15666: [External] : " Drew Adams
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