Re: Catching redefinitions

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:

> On Nov 28, 11:12 am, Elena <egarr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've tried:
>>
>> (setq sym val &rest rest)
>>
>> but Emacs does not like it either.
>
> That is, I've tried this function argument list into "defadvice":
>
> (sym val &rest rest)
>
> However, I think "setq" is too basic a function to be redefined
> without falling into some infinite loop.

Indeed, the point was that:

   setq is a special form in `C source code'.

that means that advices won't be called, when this special form is
called from C code, or from compiled emacs lisp code.

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