Re: To `boundp' or not to `boundp'?

[Stefan Monnier]

> (when (and (boundp 'xxx-mode) xxx-mode)
>   ...)
> I personally prefer to do it shorter
> (when (ignore-errors xxx-mode)
>   ...)
> Are those equivalent?

Kinda.  I think ignore-errors has a higher cost than boundp+and, but the
more important difference is that ignore-errors will hide all kinds of
other errors, so its use generally makes debugging your code harder.
For that reason I generally prefer to avoid it.


        Stefan