From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: locate-file in Emacs
Date: 19 Apr 2002 01:54:04 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87n0w1ymkz.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <sxssn5t7y0e.fsf@florida.arsdigita.de>
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@arsdigita.com> writes:
> > I think that the common cases could (and probably should) be hardwired
> > for efficiency's sake. [E.g., (eq predicate 'file-executable-p) ]
>
> Maybe. But playing that kind of game can be extremely dangerous.
> People can and do redefine built-in functions for all kinds of reasons.
> When I say `file-executable-p', I expect *that* to be run, and not
> something else.
Ok, then use
(eq (symbol-function predicate) #<subr Ffile_executable_p>)
replacing #<subr Ffile_executable_p> with appropriate magic.
-Miles
--
"I distrust a research person who is always obviously busy on a task."
--Robert Frosch, VP, GM Research
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-18 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-17 5:05 locate-file in Emacs Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-17 5:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-17 8:53 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-17 9:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-17 9:47 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-17 10:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-18 13:16 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 13:54 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-18 14:09 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 14:25 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-18 14:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-18 15:11 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 15:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-18 16:20 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 18:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-25 12:12 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-25 22:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-06 15:58 ` Hrvoje Niksic
[not found] ` <200205061655.g46Gt3K01382@rum.cs.yale.edu>
2002-05-06 19:53 ` Hrvoje Niksic
[not found] ` <200205062052.g46KqwO02482@rum.cs.yale.edu>
2002-05-06 20:59 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-05-06 21:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-06 21:57 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-05-07 20:06 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-18 16:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-18 16:24 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-19 5:25 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-18 15:31 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-18 16:29 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 16:45 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-18 16:49 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 16:54 ` Miles Bader [this message]
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