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Re: master c8a2af3037 1/3: Add new function function-alias-p


From: Lars Ingebrigtsen
Subject: Re: master c8a2af3037 1/3: Add new function function-alias-p
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2022 09:18:31 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> An the semantics would be kinda odd -- in the non-alias case, we'd still
>> return nil, right?
>
> No, I was thinking of returning the content of `symbol-function`.
> So, it basically returns a more explicit info than `indirect-function`.

My feeling is that people that want to get at the function object will
use `indirect-function'.  Callers that want both the intermediate chain
and the final object are pretty rare, I think.

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