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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: 50219@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#50219: 28.0.50; Provide better errors when trying to specialize on optional args in generic methods
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 02:34:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bl5ju3me.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0k7by2w.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Thu, 26 Aug 2021 16:11:51 -0700")

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> - the manual section on "Generic Functions" could say explicitly that
>   you can't specialize on optional arguments
> - `eval'ling the `defmethod' form above could raise an error directly
> - the compiler could say more explicitly what the problem is
>
> I'd favor all three of these changes!

Me, too.

> Happy to implement what I can (maybe not the compiler part).

I've added Stefan to the CCs; perhaps he has some comments.

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-27  0:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-26 23:11 bug#50219: 28.0.50; Provide better errors when trying to specialize on optional args in generic methods Eric Abrahamsen
2021-08-27  0:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-08-27  1:31   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-08-28 14:15     ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-08-28 16:02       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-28 16:42         ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-08-28 17:12           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-28 17:41             ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-08-28 17:49               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-29  0:47               ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-08-29 11:10                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-08-29 15:41                   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-08-29 19:16                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-08-30  3:33                       ` Eric Abrahamsen

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