From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>, 58563@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58563: 29.0.50; Generic functions and advertised-calling-convention
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2022 16:49:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871qr7j01z.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875ygjj122.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 16 Oct 2022 16:27:49 +0200")
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>> I wouldn't bother special casing this.
>> I think it's OK to say that if you want an
>> `advertised-calling-convention` you need to add a `cl-defgeneric`.
>> This likely applies to most other `declare`ations, actually.
>
> Yes, good point.
On the other hand, thinking about this a bit more -- it's not an
uncommon thing to just use defmethod to without a defgeneric to just
ensure that you're calling the function with arguments of the right
type. Making people add a fallback method (to error out on) would just
be pointless noise for them.
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2022-10-16 10:24 bug#58563: 29.0.50; Generic functions and advertised-calling-convention Basil L. Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-10-16 10:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-16 14:26 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2022-10-16 14:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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2022-10-16 15:35 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2022-10-23 17:15 ` Basil L. Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-10-24 19:50 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-10-26 13:51 ` Basil L. Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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