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Re: Should `indirect-function' be preferred over `fboundp'?
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Ihor Radchenko |
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Re: Should `indirect-function' be preferred over `fboundp'? |
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Thu, 20 Jul 2023 08:25:22 +0000 |
Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
> On Jul 20 2023, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
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>> (I can see that `fboundp' is used all over Emacs git sources, while
>> `indirect-function' is rarely used)
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> indirect-function used to signal an error when unbound.
AFAIU, it was very long time ago, before Emacs 26 at least. So, it is
now safe to assume that `indirect-function' can be used in place of
`fboundp' for most of the Emacs versions used in the wild.
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