From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should `indirect-function' be preferred over `fboundp'?
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 08:23:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8efq9ej.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83wmyv2fmk.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> The ELisp manual says:
>
> -- Function: fboundp symbol
> This function returns ‘t’ if the symbol has an object in its
> function cell, ‘nil’ otherwise. It does not check that the object
> is a legitimate function.
>
> So this is at least documented.
Yup, but docstring is a lot more deceiving.
fboundp is a function defined in data.c.
Signature
(fboundp SYMBOL)
Documentation
Return t if SYMBOL's function definition is not void.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-20 8:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-20 7:08 Should `indirect-function' be preferred over `fboundp'? Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-20 7:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-20 8:23 ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2023-07-20 7:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-07-20 8:25 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-20 13:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-07-20 13:08 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-21 1:08 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-07-21 6:07 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-22 2:49 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-07-22 10:51 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-23 2:37 ` Michael Heerdegen
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