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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should `indirect-function' be preferred over `fboundp'?
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 08:23:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8efq9ej.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83wmyv2fmk.fsf@gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> The ELisp manual says:
>
>  -- Function: fboundp symbol
>      This function returns ‘t’ if the symbol has an object in its
>      function cell, ‘nil’ otherwise.  It does not check that the object
>      is a legitimate function.
>
> So this is at least documented.

Yup, but docstring is a lot more deceiving.

    fboundp is a function defined in data.c.
    
    Signature
    (fboundp SYMBOL)
    
    Documentation
    Return t if SYMBOL's function definition is not void.

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-20  8:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-20  7:08 Should `indirect-function' be preferred over `fboundp'? Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-20  7:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-20  8:23   ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2023-07-20  7:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-07-20  8:25   ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-20 13:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-07-20 13:08   ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-21  1:08 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-07-21  6:07   ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-22  2:49     ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-07-22 10:51       ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-23  2:37         ` Michael Heerdegen

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