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From: worley@compass.com (Dale Worley)
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Subject: `let' question
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   From: think!news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu  (Ed Reingold)

   Does the let mechanism in GNU Emacs Lisp allow a function to be redefined
   in the same way a variable can be?  I want to do something like this:

No.  The "function" of a symbol is different from its "value", and let
only binds values.  Of course, you can do something like:

(let (temp)
  (setq temp (symbol-function 'silly))
  (fset 'silly (symbol-function 'ridiculous))
  ...
  (fset 'silly temp))

Dale Worley		Compass, Inc.			worley@compass.com
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