bug#12895: 24.3.50; Replacement for flet

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Overriding a function is bad.  It can mess things up and throw you
>> majorly off-course when debugging the problem.
> So are advices.

But advices are much more visible (e.g. they appear in C-h f).

> I have lots of flet in my .emacs, usually to suppress
> messages from functions which are defined elsewhere. For instance,

So you need just one advice that adds an `inhibit-message' variable and
then you can let-bind this variable wherever you used flet message.


        Stefan