Re: Redefining functions and variables

[Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>]

Johan Bockgård <bojohan+news@gnu.org> writes:

> Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> (defmacro defun (name args &rest body)
>>>   `(progn
>>>       (message "defining %S" name)
>>>       (,old-defun ,name ,args ,@body)))
>>
>> This is very close to what I was looking for.
>
> Note that neither defadvice nor redefinition of defun will work for
> (already) byte compiled code.
>
>
> (byte-compile (lambda () (defun foo ()))) =>
>
> #[nil "..." [defalias foo #[nil "..." [nil] 1]] 3]
>                 ^
>           no `defun' after byte compilation

Not sure what you mean here, but I have lots of defadvice that is
defined for functions that are already defined and byte compiled which
work fine i.e. I use defadvice to advise standard emacs lisp functions
regularly without problems.

Tim

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