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27.0.50; Regression in #'labels, recent versions

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Message #33 received at 31792 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea <at> parhasard.net>, 31792 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Subject: Re: bug#31792: 27.0.50; Regression in #'labels, recent versions
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 00:13:50 -0400

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Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

>> +Bind the function cells of symbols within FORM.
>
> I think this is wrong: it makes it sound like it does `fset`, which
> is what CL's `flet` did, but not what `cl-flet` does.
> If you look at the implementation, you'll see that it doesn't touch any
> "function cell".

Hmm, the manual page says something similar:

 -- Macro: cl-flet (bindings...) forms...
     This form establishes `let'-style bindings on the function cells
     of symbols rather than on the value cells.

It also wrongly claims that (quote FUNC) would work:

     A "reference" to a function name is either a call to that
     function, or a use of its name quoted by `quote' or `function' to
                                              ^^^^^^^
     be passed on to, say, `mapcar'.

Perhaps both of those are leftovers from the original `flet'
description.  How about this:

[v3-0001-Fix-fun-handling-inside-labels-Bug-31792.patch (text/plain, attachment)]

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