RE: flet, cl-flet, cl-letf in 24.3

["Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

> > If you have read the doc and you feel it does not make 
> > things clear, consider filing a doc bug: `M-x report-emacs-bug'.
> 
> I don't even have emacs 24.3 installed. I'm referring to the
> documentation [1,2,3,4]. Together with the notification
>     `flet' is an obsolete macro (as of 24.3); use either 
>     `cl-flet' or `cl-letf'.
> as reported here [5], this documentation does not really tell 
> me what to do if I want to keep relying on the dynamic 
> scoping of flet.  A brief google search [6] leads me to believe
> that (cl-letf (((symbol-function 'foo) #'(lambda (...) ...))) ...) 
> is the suggested solution, however I wanted to make sure that 
> is the case.

It is good to ask the question here, of course, and someone will likely post a
good answer soon.

> In any case if that were the sugggested way, it should maybe 
> be added to one of the documentation sites [1,2,3,4]. I'd be 
> happy to file a report on that.

Please do.  That can help Emacs Dev understand what might need to be done to
make things clearer.  If there is a misunderstanding wrt the references you
cite, Emacs Dev will likely let you know that too.  Just becoming aware of a
misunderstanding can be helpful input to those trying to communicate better.