From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com>
Cc: 52317@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52317: 29.0.50; Unintelligible sentence in EIEIO info
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2021 22:02:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735n6ojdb.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lf0y93rj.fsf@gmail.com> (Marco Wahl's message of "Sun, 05 Dec 2021 21:48:48 +0100")
Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com> writes:
> Visit (info "(eieio) Generics") .
> Find the sentence
>
> In CLOS, a generic call also be used to provide an argument list
> and dispatch precedence for all the arguments.
>
> This sentence is unintelligible AFAICT.
I've now changed it to:
In CLOS, a generic method can also be used to provide an argument list
and dispatch precedence for all the arguments. In @eieio{},
dispatching only occurs for the first argument, so the @var{arglist}
is not used.
in Emacs 29. But the documentation here talks about cl-defgeneric, so
it's extra confusing. (The `defgeneric' in eieio-compat.el does behave
like described, apparently, so it's not totally wrong... but... it
think perhaps the ieieo/cl method stuff needs some editing.)
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2021-12-05 20:48 bug#52317: 29.0.50; Unintelligible sentence in EIEIO info Marco Wahl
2021-12-05 21:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-12-05 21:28 ` Marco Wahl
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