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24.3; Documentation bug: Example code in (elisp) Anonymous Functions

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From: "Phil Sainty" <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3; Documentation bug: Example code in (elisp) Anonymous Functions
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 19:18:53 +1300 (NZDT)

Re: Info node (elisp) Anonymous Functions

The final piece of code is prefixed with "This would not happen if, say,
you had constructed the anonymous function by quoting it as a list",
but the code then fails to actually do that. It is actually identical
to the initial version of the function:


>    In the following example, we define a `change-property' function
> that takes a function as its third argument, followed by a
> `double-property' function that makes use of `change-property' by
> passing it an anonymous function:
>
>      (defun change-property (symbol prop function)
>        (let ((value (get symbol prop)))
>          (put symbol prop (funcall function value))))
>
>      (defun double-property (symbol prop)
>        (change-property symbol prop (lambda (x) (* 2 x))))
>
> Note that we do not quote the `lambda' form.
>
>    If you compile the above code, the anonymous function is also
> compiled.  This would not happen if, say, you had constructed the
> anonymous function by quoting it as a list:
>
>      (defun double-property (symbol prop)
>        (change-property symbol prop (lambda (x) (* 2 x))))
>
> In that case, the anonymous function is kept as a lambda expression in
> the compiled code.  The byte-compiler cannot assume this list is a
> function, even though it looks like one, since it does not know that
> `change-property' intends to use it as a function.
















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Message #10 received at 16067-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 16067-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16067: 24.3;
 Documentation bug: Example code in (elisp) Anonymous Functions
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 09:17:26 -0500

Version: 24.4

Thanks. This was fixed some months ago in the sources.

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