bug#17872: 24.4.50; "primitive" in (elisp) `Advising Functions' and similar nodes

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> Please use some other term than "primitive" for what is intended here.
> The term "primitive" already has a different meaning in Emacs, which you
> can find by using `i primitive RET' in the Elisp manual:
>
>  "primitive"
>      A function which is callable from Lisp but is actually written in
>      C.  Primitives are also called "built-in functions", or "subrs".
>      Examples include functions like `car' and `append'.  In addition,
>      all special forms (see below) are also considered primitives.

Are you referring to (for instance) this text?

---
Emacs's advice system provides two sets of primitives for that: the core set,
for function values held in variables and object fields (with the corresponding
primitives being @code{add-function} and @code{remove-function}) and another
set layered on top of it for named functions (with the main primitives being
@code{advice-add} and @code{advice-remove}).
---

Nowhere in this node (and the subsequent nodes) is the word "primitive"
used in reference to a function or the like, but in the phrase "Core
Advising Primitives" or similar.  I don't think there's much scope for
confusion with the other use of the word, so I'm closing this bug report.

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