From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Making a function than can only be used interactively Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2022 23:29:56 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: Reply-To: carlmarcos@tutanota.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38328"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 03 23:38:13 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o87IA-0009lz-50 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2022 23:38:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35398 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o87I9-0002ae-9L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2022 17:38:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54348) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o87AG-00060a-8F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2022 17:30:01 -0400 Original-Received: from w1.tutanota.de ([81.3.6.162]:55360) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o87AE-0006QY-Cv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2022 17:29:59 -0400 Original-Received: from w3.tutanota.de (unknown [192.168.1.164]) by w1.tutanota.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 888F9FBF8D7; Sun, 3 Jul 2022 21:29:56 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1656883796; s=s1; d=tutanota.com; h=From:From:To:To:Subject:Subject:Content-Description:Content-ID:Content-Type:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Cc:Cc:Date:Date:In-Reply-To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Message-ID:Reply-To:References:References:Sender; bh=36hPmcRwuKCxduQ5LSGoz7ZbnMWSoQ0xZGGaoPv3MpU=; b=zBHmyq98QKeeVsXU+dZ7qsnbZCatrGOcQ1Rv5+pPLJ/fqu98/VXTgCT1csklsa9y Sx7Yaft3FR5gD++NKtc4MwvwPVXY93VMd0+Vs9ufFX4FlnB7NmVD8UoYqmKfjnxAwSt 7gaxL+GSkDLyc3Y1Y54OU1Q8+xE0cbRt02rTcvxjFZrVsKDGqv13aflS9hE/K0t45Wi AQFQ0emeOnlaD8yGxfk5TbtTFy5+4wGwICkApyz3eCkQiJzd8q6zqh39Tafs+UWrvbM i3e7Vm3uSodupzN92uFbipGyvHEGkIEbHECd1ydT+JoamG92p1WikRNLnmiUiels9eN fBgAZwsXVw== In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=81.3.6.162; envelope-from=carlmarcos@tutanota.com; helo=w1.tutanota.de X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.29 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:138279 Archived-At: Jul 3, 2022, 20:14 by help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org: >> I do not want people to use the function non-interactively. >> > > An interactive call is fundamentally a combination of "run the > interactive spec to get the args, and then call the function with those > args". So, in a sense you can't avoid it. > > But you can discourage non-interactive calls in various ways, depending > on how important you think it is. The most standard way is to use > > (declare (interactive-only )) > > so that the compiler will emit a warning when it sees a non-interactive > call to that function ( is the replacement you recommend for > non-interactive calls). > I need some clarification about=C2=A0 ( is the replacement you recomme= nd for non-interactive calls). Thought that (declare (interactive-only )) specifies to work onl= y interactively. Thus, what is the "replacement" about?