Re: [Texmacs-dev] Overwriting definitions with tm-define

[Massimiliano Gubinelli]

Hi Giovanni,
 very likely "translate" is already defined otherwise and overloading it with 
different number of parameters is not possible.

I think this speaks for a request I was making to Joris, that is to distinguish 
the *definition* of a new overloadable function and its *overloading*. Both 
operation are currently handled by tm-define but from my point of view this is 
not very nice. Especially because the tm-defined functions are by default 
imported in all texmacs modules.

Max



> On 23. Dec 2020, at 23:36, Giovanni Piredda <pireddag@posteo.de> wrote:
> 
> Dear developers - dear all,
> 
> I have noticed that trying to redefine with tm-define the procedure 
> "translate" gets TeXmacs in a non-recoverable state. I found it out as I 
> wanted to call "translate" a graphical procedure.
> 
> One error message is
> 
> Guile error: ((wrong-number-of-args #f Wrong number of arguments to ~A 
> (#<procedure translate (a b c)>) #f))
> .../TeXmacs/progs/kernel/boot/debug.scm:231:19: In procedure throw in 
> expression (apply throw err):
> .../TeXmacs/progs/kernel/boot/debug.scm:231:19: Wrong number of arguments to 
> #<procedure translate (a b c)>
> 
> and "native menubar trick" appears in the menus.
> 
> Is this expected? I tried to redefine tr-file and this on the opposite is 
> possible.
> 
> I am going to call the procedure for translation "shift", so I do not need 
> the redefinition of "translate" to work, but I am curious.
> 
> Giovanni
> 
> 
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