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Re: Question about cl-flet and cl-letf
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tomas |
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Re: Question about cl-flet and cl-letf |
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Sun, 29 Oct 2023 07:19:40 +0100 |
On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 02:14:10AM +0200, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
> >
> > > No - they very different. `cl-flet' creates lexical bindings. Your
> > > `cl-letf' call OTOH temporarily changes the function binding of the
> > > symbol `y-or-n-p' - which more or less gives you dynamical binding.
> >
> > Thanks for your response. I basically want to temporarily make
> > `y-or-n-p' act like `always'; and from what I read in the docstrings,
> > both version should work, but `cl-flet' does not. Are the bindings
> > relevant in this case?
>
> Yes. Please read about scoping rules:
>
> (info "(elisp) Variable Scoping")
>
> the analogue rules apply for function bindings.
>
> When the call of `y-or-n-p' does not occur textually inside the
> `cl-flet' form, it will not be affected by a lexical function binding.
It can be confusing. Look at it this way: y-or-no-p is most probably
not called directly in your (while ...) construct (which is a
special form) but from some functions called from there.
So it's not in your lexical environment, but on somewhere else's.
So a dynamic binding does the trick.
Cheers
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