Re: Making a function than can only be used interactively

[carlmarcos]

Jul 3, 2022, 20:14 by help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org:

>> I do not want people to use the function non-interactively.
>>
>
> An interactive call is fundamentally a combination of "run the
> interactive spec to get the args, and then call the function with those
> args".  So, in a sense you can't avoid it.
>
> But you can discourage non-interactive calls in various ways, depending
> on how important you think it is.  The most standard way is to use
>
>  (declare (interactive-only <foo>))
>
> so that the compiler will emit a warning when it sees a non-interactive
> call to that function (<foo> is the replacement you recommend for
> non-interactive calls).
>
I need some clarification about  (<foo> is the replacement you recommend for
non-interactive calls).

Thought that (declare (interactive-only <foo>)) specifies <foo> to work only 
interactively.
Thus, what is the "replacement" about?