Re: RE: [External] : Making a function than can only be used interactively

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2022 at 2:02 AM
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> To: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: "'Help-Gnu-Emacs (help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)'" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Subject: RE: [External] : Re: Making a function than can only be used 
> interactively
>
> > > Depends whether the person coding that function thinks it is.
> > > What can he do then?  Issue warning as you suggested with `declare`?
> >
> > I don't think we can answer this in the abstract.  So, we'd first need
> > to have some concrete scenario before we can start discussing it.
>
> Yup.  Has any concrete description been presented
> in this thread that makes clear what the real
> problem to be solved is - the use case behind the
> question?

The filling of arguments could be difficult if a sequence of interactive
prompt depend on previous values.

One thing that has been discussed is the following

(defun foo ()
(interactive)
(let ((a ...)
(b ...)
(c ...))
...))