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Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> No - they very different.  `cl-flet' creates lexical bindings.  Your
> `cl-letf' call OTOH temporarily changes the function binding of the
> symbol `y-or-n-p' - which more or less gives you dynamical binding.

Thanks for your response.  I basically want to temporarily make
`y-or-n-p' act like `always'; and from what I read in the docstrings,
both version should work, but `cl-flet' does not.  Are the bindings
relevant in this case?  Sorry if I'm missing the obvious here.

Best, Arash