Re: other-buffer advice on kill-buffer

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Jérémy Compostella writes:

 > I do not understand why all these primitives functions do not call the Lisp
 > symbol instead of the C one. What is the reason ? Performance ? Constraints ?

Partly performance, I would think.  Advice is clearly a second-class
citizen here.  While I agree with the rule that advice must not be
used to implement core functionality, even in "minor" modules such as
rarely used modes, I think advice deserves more use than it gets.
However, the general opinion is (as you saw) that advice is to be
avoided.  So making advice work everywhere is not considered to be as
important as even a small performance loss in a very large number of
function calls.

However, code readability is probably far more important.
`Fother_buffer(buffer_object)' is far more readable than
`Ffuncall(2, intern("other_buffer"), buffer_object)' or even
`Ffuncall(2, Qother_buffer, buffer_object)'.