Re: Overwriting definitions with tm-define

In particular, it is already defined in the CPP glue code. See src/Scheme/Glue/glue_basic.cpp


> On 24. Dec 2020, at 12:13, Massimiliano Gubinelli <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Giovanni,
> very likely "translate" is already defined otherwise and overloading it with different number of parameters is not possible.
> 
> I think this speaks for a request I was making to Joris, that is to distinguish the *definition* of a new overloadable function and its *overloading*. Both operation are currently handled by tm-define but from my point of view this is not very nice. Especially because the tm-defined functions are by default imported in all texmacs modules.
> 
> Max
> 
> 
> 
>> On 23. Dec 2020, at 23:36, Giovanni Piredda <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear developers - dear all,
>> 
>> I have noticed that trying to redefine with tm-define the procedure "translate" gets TeXmacs in a non-recoverable state. I found it out as I wanted to call "translate" a graphical procedure.
>> 
>> One error message is
>> 
>> Guile error: ((wrong-number-of-args #f Wrong number of arguments to ~A (#<procedure translate (a b c)>) #f))
>> .../TeXmacs/progs/kernel/boot/debug.scm:231:19: In procedure throw in expression (apply throw err):
>> .../TeXmacs/progs/kernel/boot/debug.scm:231:19: Wrong number of arguments to #<procedure translate (a b c)>
>> 
>> and "native menubar trick" appears in the menus.
>> 
>> Is this expected? I tried to redefine tr-file and this on the opposite is possible.
>> 
>> I am going to call the procedure for translation "shift", so I do not need the redefinition of "translate" to work, but I am curious.
>> 
>> Giovanni
>> 
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