From: Greg Hill <ghill@synergymicro.com>
Subject: Re: Built-in Functions and Special Forms
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 19:42:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p04310103ba8338c5a8d5@[198.17.100.22]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8765r6cxk0.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com>
At 2:38 AM +0100 2/27/03, Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
>I've not found any predicate to distinguish between built-in functions
>and special forms.
In Emacs-21, the documentation is consistent enough that this seems
to always work.
(defun special-form-p (symbol)
(string-match "\\.\\.\\.\\|&rest" (documentation symbol)))
--Greg
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2003-02-26 20:50 Built-in Functions and Special Forms Artist
2003-02-26 21:08 ` Barry Margolin
2003-02-27 0:02 ` Unknown
2003-02-27 1:38 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2003-02-27 3:42 ` Greg Hill [this message]
2003-02-27 7:31 ` Miles Bader
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2003-02-27 4:02 Greg Hill
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2003-02-28 18:51 ` Artist
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