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Subject: Re: Using request.el question: what is function*?
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Thanks for the prompt response!
I did not load cl.el, and that was indeed the problem.

On Sunday, July 22, 2018 at 4:55:36 PM UTC+3, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> On 22 July 2018 at 09:42,  <tzach.livyatan@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> > Where do function* macro(?) is coming from? The name makes it very hard=
 to Google this issue.
>=20
> If you've loaded cl.el, then <f1> f function* RET will tell you. It
> looks like the current request.el uses cl-function already.
>=20
> function* is an alias for =E2=80=98cl-function=E2=80=99 in =E2=80=98cl.el=
=E2=80=99.
>=20
> (function* FUNC)
>=20
> Introduce a function.
> Like normal =E2=80=98function=E2=80=99, except that if argument is a lamb=
da form,
> its argument list allows full Common Lisp conventions.