bug#15666: 24.3.50; regression: `defadvice' of a special form

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> (elisp) `Defining Advice' says that you can use `defadvice' to advise a
> special form.  It is quite clear about this:
>
>   "Here, FUNCTION is the name of the function (or macro or special form)
>   to be advised.  From now on, we will write just "function" when
>   describing the entity being advised, but this always includes macros
>                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   and special forms."
>       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The manual now says:

  Special forms (@pxref{Special Forms}) cannot be advised, however macros can
be advised, in much the same way as functions.

And I don't think we want to change this at this point, so I'm closing
this bug report.

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