Re: 'let' for functions ?

[Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi>]

chris@example.org writes:

> I just wondered if it is possible to get the lexical scoping effect for
> functions that 'let' and related functions provide for variables.

Note that Emacs Lisp is dynamically scoped, thus let does not
provide lexical scoping but dynamic scoping.

> i.e I want to be able to do something like this :
>
> (let ((funca funcb))
>    (require 'foolib))

You can use flet (or labels if you need recursion) from the cl
package:

(require 'cl)

(flet ((funca (&rest args)
         (apply 'funcb args)))
  (require 'foolib))

-- 
Hannu