bug#12895: 24.3.50; Replacement for flet

[Michael Heerdegen]

Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com> writes:

> I did like flet, though, and in general, I think it's annoying to users
> to remove/deprecate functionality that are neat ways to get inside lisp
> code from outside (dynamic-scoping overrides, advices, etc.)  just
> because they are bad practice and make debugging harder.

BTW, let me add to the (valid) warnings that this can still be achieved
with cl-letf:

    (cl-letf (((symbol-function 'some-function) #'some-other-function))
      code...)

The created binding to the symbol-function place is dynamical.


Michael.