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Re: the hand that feeds you
From: |
Harald Hanche-Olsen |
Subject: |
Re: the hand that feeds you |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:12:12 +0200 |
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+ Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>:
| Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
|> (defun kill-myself ()
|> (insert "only once")
|> (defun kill-myself ()))
|
| That is just as dependent on the implementation of defun as the original
| is on the implementation of run-hooks and remove-hooks, isn't it?
Er, no, it is only dependent on the specification of defun. Notably,
that the inner defun does not define a local function, as it might in
some lisp dialects (but not elisp).
| BTW, this is truly suicidal:
|
| (defun kill-myself ()
| (insert "only once")
| (unintern 'kill-myself))
Not suicidal at all. The uninterned symbol remains in the hook, and
its function definition will get called.
| But maybe (fmakunbound 'kill-myself) or
| (fset 'kill-myself (symbol-function 'ignore)) is good enough. :-)
That will cause run-hooks to fail on the second try.
--
* Harald Hanche-Olsen <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- It is undesirable to believe a proposition
when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
-- Bertrand Russell