From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Lawrence Mitchell <wence@gmx.li>
Cc: 11686@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11686: 24.1.50; defun should return name
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:58:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr4tcpqhi.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874nqfl1r2.fsf@gmx.li> (Lawrence Mitchell's message of "Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:34:09 +0100")
>> Maybe a simpler way is to change defalias to return the name rather than
>> the value.
> But defalias says:
> | (defalias SYMBOL DEFINITION &optional DOCSTRING)
> | Set SYMBOL's function definition to DEFINITION, and return DEFINITION.
> So you'll probably then get a bug report about that instead.
We'll see, I just installed a patch that does that.
I don't know of any use-case where the return value of `defalias' is
used, whereas I do know of one use case where the return value of
`defun' is used (it's in (add-hook 'foo-hook (defun bar () ...))).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-18 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-12 20:58 bug#11686: 24.1.50; defun should return name Johan Bockgård
2012-06-13 9:13 ` Lawrence Mitchell
2012-06-13 12:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-13 14:34 ` Lawrence Mitchell
2012-06-18 15:58 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-06-22 13:38 ` Lawrence Mitchell
2012-06-24 17:08 ` Stefan Monnier
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