Re: Defining functions on the fly

[Michael Heerdegen]

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:


> Seems (intern... is not evaluated at this point:
>
> (defvar pfxd "pfxd-")
>
> (defun (intern (concat pfxd "-foo")) ())
>
> -->
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument symbolp (intern

That's expected.  You need to use `defalias' if you want to specify the
function name at run time.  Or use a macro.

Michael.