Re: Redefining functions and variables

[Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com>]

On Jul 28, 12:35 am, Andreas Politz <poli...@fh-trier.de> wrote:
> Why not use `quote'.

Because it didn't work. This:

(fboundp ',name))

was expanded by `macroexpand' to:

(fboundp ...)) ;; Exactly as shown.

Using `quote' like this:

(fboundp (quote ,name)))

I got the same result.

> Of course this leads to an endless recursive loop, expanding your macro
> again and again ...

Then I should have tested the macro with `macroexpand-all' instead of
`macroexpand'. However, I've tried using the macro, and it seemed to
work, albeit it choked on the unquoted symbol passed to `fboundp'.

> (funcall (symbol-function 'defun) 'foo nil)
> does not seem to work either, which would mean that you can't save
> `defun's definition.

`defun' is not a function, it's a macro (defined in C source code).

Thanks for answering.