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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: zyd-p@proton.me, 73505@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#73505: EIEIO manual out of date, doesn't reflect current functionality
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:01:46 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86h6a18d39.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvh6a11d9l.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 27 Sep 2024 08:48:07 -0400)

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: zyd <zyd-p@proton.me>,  73505@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 08:48:07 -0400
> 
> > But this isn't true at all, EIEIO has both of these features fully
> > functional in fact.
> 
> It's both true and false:
> 
> - EIEIO "has" none of those things because the defmethod stuff is now
>   provided by something else than EIEIO.  EIEIO only provides `defclass`
>   and associated functions (e.g. `slot-value`).
> 
> - But yes, the text is out of date because you can now use these
>   features (with EIEIO objects, with defstruct objects, with
>   oclosure objects, ...).
> 
> > The EIEIO manual states that it provides method functionality for
> > Emacs Lisp.  The manual has whole sections devoted to both
> > cl-defmethod and cl-defgeneric and refers to them as part of its
> > corpus.  It has documentation for both.
> >
> >     (info "(eieio) Generics")
> >     (info "(eieio) Methods")
> 
> This structure is a left-over from when generics were provided by EIEIO.
> We should clarify.

Thanks, please suggest how to clarify.





  reply	other threads:[~2024-09-27 13:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-26 22:45 bug#73505: EIEIO manual out of date, doesn't reflect current functionality zyd via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-27  6:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-27  8:08   ` zyd via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-27 12:48   ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-27 13:01     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-09-27 13:15     ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-27 13:23       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-27 14:35         ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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