[comp.emacs] Improvement Suggestion for Gnu

liberte@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu (08/28/87)

Another reason to know whether or not a function is primitive is that
primitives are used directly in C code and a redefinition of the primitive
function with a lisp function is not usually used by the C code.
The programmers manual will distinguish primitives from lisp functions.

dan