bug#41989: 28.0.50; Edebug doesn't generate symbols for `cl-flet' etc.

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com> writes:

>> I'm not quite sure what the status is here now.  I tried `C-u C-M-x'-ing
>> it now and got:
>>
>> Edebug: foo@cl-flet@118
>> Edebug: foo@cl-flet@119
>> Edebug: bar
>> bar
>>
>> Which seems correct.  And stepping through the function also works.  So
>> is there more to be done here?
>
> It would be nice to include the outer function ("bar") in the
> generated symbol, e.g. "bar@foo@cl-flet@118" or similar.
> But that would really be the icing on the cake, and it's not necessary
> to avoid duplicate symbols. So more of a nice to have; feel free to
> close this bug if it's too hard to implement.

Ah, right.  Yes, that does sound like an even better way to name these
flets -- easier to identify in backtraces and the like (but I guess
normally the backtrace would also tell you the enclosing function, so
perhaps the utility would be limited)...

Perhaps Stefan M has an opinion here?  Added to the CCs.

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