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Re: new functions defined list

From "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.lisp
Subject Re: new functions defined list
Date 2019-05-28 21:53 +0200
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Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, 28 May 2019 20:22:42 +0200
> "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
>> Sai Sai <sairussuria@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > There should be a function that return the functions loaded from a file.
>> 
>> No, there should not.  It is useless.
>
> It's not useless , one might want to know for general information if nothing
> else. But I can think of other similar but more useful things like , given a
> function name , to know if it was defined in a file and if yes on which line.

Which is a different question, but similarly ill-defined. Functions are
not defined "in" a file.  They're defined by evaluating some forms
(defun and defgeneric are only two of them).  Evaluation is not done in
files, it's done in environments.

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__Pascal J. Bourguignon__
http://www.informatimago.com

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new functions defined list Sai Sai <sairussuria@gmail.com> - 2019-05-28 07:10 -0700
  Re: new functions defined list "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-05-28 19:35 +0200
    Re: new functions defined list Sai Sai <sairussuria@gmail.com> - 2019-05-28 10:45 -0700
      Re: new functions defined list Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2019-05-28 18:00 +0000
  Re: new functions defined list Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2019-05-28 17:50 +0000
    Re: new functions defined list Sai Sai <sairussuria@gmail.com> - 2019-05-28 11:01 -0700
    Re: new functions defined list Sai Sai <sairussuria@gmail.com> - 2019-05-28 11:12 -0700
      Re: new functions defined list "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-05-28 20:22 +0200
        Re: new functions defined list Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2019-05-28 19:20 +0000
          Re: new functions defined list "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-05-28 21:53 +0200
            Re: new functions defined list Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2019-05-28 20:34 +0000
          Re: new functions defined list paul wallich <pw@panix.com> - 2019-05-28 21:03 -0400
          Re: new functions defined list Kaz Kylheku <847-115-0292@kylheku.com> - 2019-05-29 17:09 +0000
            Re: new functions defined list "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-05-29 20:40 +0200
        Re: new functions defined list Madhu <enometh@meer.net> - 2019-05-29 06:43 +0530
        Re: new functions defined list rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) - 2019-05-31 15:50 +0000
      Re: new functions defined list paul wallich <pw@panix.com> - 2019-05-28 14:28 -0400
        Re: new functions defined list Sai Sai <sairussuria@gmail.com> - 2019-05-28 11:53 -0700
      Re: new functions defined list Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2019-05-28 19:07 +0000
      Re: new functions defined list taruss@google.com - 2019-05-28 15:10 -0700
    Re: new functions defined list smh <shaflich@gmail.com> - 2019-05-29 04:00 -0700
  Re: new functions defined list "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-05-28 20:13 +0200
  Re: new functions defined list taruss@google.com - 2019-05-29 11:46 -0700

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