Re: (fboundp 'make-symbolic-link) on w32

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:12:36 +0200
> > From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden>
> > Cc: Emacs Devel <address@hidden>
> >
> > Note that symbolic link does not exist on all platform even though this 
> > function still exist for use via Tramp.
>
> That's something for the manual, not for a doc string.

Why not in the doc string? The problem here is that the function exists 
on all platform which leads those who just read the doc string into 
coding things like

  (when (fboundp 'make-symbolic-link)
     (make-symbolic-link ...))

which makes the call to make-symbolic-link on all platforms. In the code 
where I saw this there were no error checking around this.

> Besides, Windows Vista introduced support for symlinks, so if someone
> volunteers to code that in Emacs, w32 will have it as well.

Is there any Emacs user that runs Vista ;-)

(Ah, yes I know.)