From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to shadow a function temporarily? (flet and cl-flet)
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:59:14 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eh3tsc71.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmwihh7lv.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 27 Jan 2014 08:40:42 -0500")
Stefan Monnier (2014-01-27 17:40 +0400) wrote:
>> (defun macol-read-color (&optional prompt convert-to-RGB allow-empty-name msg)
>> "Read a color name or RGB triplet.
>> Same as `read-color', but use `macol-foreground-color-at-point'
>> and `macol-background-color-at-point' instead of
>> `foreground-color-at-point' and `background-color-at-point'."
>> (interactive "i\np\ni\np")
>> (cl-letf (((symbol-function 'foreground-color-at-point)
>> (symbol-function 'macol-foreground-color-at-point))
>> ((symbol-function 'background-color-at-point)
>> (symbol-function 'macol-background-color-at-point)))
>> (read-color prompt convert-to-RGB allow-empty-name msg)))
>
> Now, if someone sees a problem in the behavior of
> background-color-at-point, he may try to Edebug
> background-color-at-point and won't understand why it's not called (or
> why it *is* called but the value it returns is the value that the caller
> receives, or ...).
>
> Or someone else may start writing code relying on that new behavior
> without realizing that it won't work in an Emacs that hasn't loaded this
> "macol" package.
>
> Of course, all that can happen as well with my `advice', but at least
> the function's docstring will give you a hint. You can also more easily
> deactivate this behavior either by re-binding use-my-color-improvement
> to nil while `read-color' is in progress, or by deactivating this
> particular advice.
Thank you very much for the detailed description. Now I understand the
point and am going to follow your advice about using advices.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-27 14:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-26 14:11 How to shadow a function temporarily? (flet and cl-flet) Alex Kost
2014-01-26 14:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-26 19:24 ` Alex Kost
2014-01-26 22:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-27 5:57 ` Alex Kost
2014-01-27 13:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-27 14:59 ` Alex Kost [this message]
2014-01-26 19:03 ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-01-26 19:31 ` Alex Kost
[not found] <mailman.12843.1390745495.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-01-26 16:22 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-01-26 19:25 ` Alex Kost
2014-01-26 18:32 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-01-26 19:38 ` Alex Kost
2014-01-26 19:36 ` Barry Margolin
2014-01-26 19:45 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-01-26 22:07 ` Alex Kost
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