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Re: When calling defuns is a Bad Thing.


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: When calling defuns is a Bad Thing.
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2018 14:07:18 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> Calling defuns (as opposed to primitives) from edebug is a bad idea,
> unless those defuns are also defined in edebug.el.

Just as a datapoint, I remember using Edebug to debug itself, and
it was very useful to be able to do it (although it's clearly
problematic in the general case).

So, I partly agree, but I also think maybe we should try and work to
make it easier to Edebug any code, even the one used by Edebug.


        Stefan




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