Re: DEFU* macro name for a extern DEFUN: DEFUE? DEFUNEX?

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> How about this idea instead?  It would not replace any DEFUNs.
> We put the line "static" in front of functions that are not exported.
> For example:

> static
> DEFUN ("subrp", Fsubrp, Ssubrp, 1, 1, 0,
>        doc: /* Return t if OBJECT is a built-in function.  */)
>   (Lisp_Object object)
> {
>   if (SUBRP (object))
>     return Qt;
>   return Qnil;
> }

> This works too.  Would it be OK?

No, this is going in the wrong direction.  What we want instead is to
extend make-docfile so that the DEFUNs, DEFSYMs (and any other similar
thing we may have) automatically create a global foo.h file which
declares all those objects, which are global anyway (because they're
global on the Lisp side).  I.e. we want to make all those C-and-Lisp
objects even less static than they are now.
We recently did that for DEFVARs and that was a very good change.


        Stefan