From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: What is better way to automatically generate set of functions? Date: Sat, 15 May 2021 23:14:51 +0300 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21268"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: Help GNU Emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 15 22:16:28 2021 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 1li0i4-0005LG-84 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 15 May 2021 22:16:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60230 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1li0i2-0003rj-Ib for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 15 May 2021 16:16:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48012) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1li0hC-0003q6-CF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 May 2021 16:15:34 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:36455) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1li0hA-0005IR-Oy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 May 2021 16:15:34 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:154.226.142.93]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000ADF1F.0000000060A02BC2.00006B5F; Sat, 15 May 2021 13:14:58 -0700 Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=support1@rcdrun.com; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:129799 Archived-At: As I wish to create automatically set of functions, I have come up with this solution that works: (defun hyperscope-generate-function-by-hyperdocument-type (type) (let* ((type (downcase (string-replace " " "-" type))) (function-name (intern (format "hyperscope-add-new-%s-hyperdocument" type)))) `,(defalias function-name (lambda () (message "Hello"))))) (hyperscope-generate-function-by-hyperdocument-type "Asciidoc") ⇒ hyperscope-add-new-asciidoc-hyperdocument (hyperscope-add-new-asciidoc-hyperdocument) ⇒ "Hello" (hyperscope-generate-function-by-hyperdocument-type "Markdown") ⇒ hyperscope-add-new-markdown-hyperdocument (hyperscope-add-new-markdown-hyperdocument) ⇒ "Hello" But I would rather like it to be something like: (defun hyperscope-generate-function-by-hyperdocument-type (type) (let* ((type (downcase (string-replace " " "-" type))) (function-name (intern (format "hyperscope-add-new-%s-hyperdocument" type)))) `,(defun ,function-name (lambda () (message "Hello"))))) Only that in the last case I am not getting it to work. Is there a way to make it with `defun'? Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns Sign an open letter in support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/ https://rms-support-letter.github.io/