Re: Should `indirect-function' be preferred over `fboundp'?

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> I don't think it affects the point you are making, but why are you using
> funcall in the last line, rather than just calling the funcion as
>
>   (yant/foo)

I stumbled upon this behaviour in Org mode's code that works with src
blocks:

#+begin_src language
  <code>
#+end_src

Org uses heuristics to determine how to fontify such code blocks:

1. Org tries to derive the major mode name from language name
   constructing a symbol as (format "%s-mode" language)

2. If the symbol is a function, Org proceeds running that function to
   expedite fontification.

So, no, it would not be possible to write (language-mode) directly.
Function symbol string is calculated dynamically.

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