Re: Dynamically constructing advice behaves strangely

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2016-02-14, at 16:34, Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:

> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>
>> This works (i.e., M-: foo-fun properly runs the advice), but I expected
>> the symbol `advice-for-foo-fun' to have this piece of advice in its
>> function cell - and it does not.  Why?
>
> You bind the function to a new uninterned symbol (`make-symbol'), which
> is not what you want.  You want `intern'.

Stupid me.  Thanks for pointing that out.  My code works perfectly now.
I'm pretty sure I'll blog about it soon; also I'll post a message on
this ML in a few minutes.

> Michael.

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University