From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marco Wahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#52317: 29.0.50; Unintelligible sentence in EIEIO info Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2021 22:28:25 +0100 Organization: Marco Wahl Message-ID: <87h7bm91xi.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87lf0y93rj.fsf@gmail.com> <8735n6ojdb.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="10455"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cc: Marco Wahl , 52317@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 05 22:29:30 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mtz4b-0002TM-UC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2021 22:29:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42736 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mtz4a-0005AM-3M for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2021 16:29:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:49674) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mtz4H-00059z-PY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2021 16:29:09 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:48288) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mtz4A-0008Cg-1M for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2021 16:29:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mtz49-0006Om-RU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2021 16:29:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Marco Wahl Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2021 21:29:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 52317 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 52317-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B52317.163873971524561 (code B ref 52317); Sun, 05 Dec 2021 21:29:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 52317) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Dec 2021 21:28:35 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59834 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mtz3j-0006O5-DI for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2021 16:28:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-wm1-f48.google.com ([209.85.128.48]:33681) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mtz3g-0006Nr-LQ for 52317@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2021 16:28:34 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-wm1-f48.google.com with SMTP id r9-20020a7bc089000000b00332f4abf43fso7219352wmh.0 for <52317@debbugs.gnu.org>; Sun, 05 Dec 2021 13:28:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; h=from:to:cc:subject:organization:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version; bh=iaCFR4jnVr4sFIa5LnrGJVzo/N4mPvIswJu7XAn+Vlg=; b=VpcYhkUXKjtBb2x8Z7suqmH/YQA3p7xIecbcShR6SjosYK8KeEyeSuAtZW6QgLJtxi w8aKOa3coWRo6Lg0ufsQ9agmt/iMHk2xRoZhVt+65PmatX6MOmS6C9CDsrn9gPzYBytN 0XEVGSSvTb1gjeg5xSHdi+chmH6vXQv6Rjna57GQXoU3jurP9+SvCNwCwZqbZquRJbB4 hbZMNvo1E2bRkGlfQl2uCs979Rj6bWQJz7SZ4wE3fyeOwHY7tiKP5qRWq0Ix+Mu+Q3TU mQLYRjXqcgjUU6dlyZhhYXKB7e6YH4DVKse0G6MpBaLMz9csjIsceJaw9ACTZP/YDHMQ 1IgA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:organization:references:date :in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version; bh=iaCFR4jnVr4sFIa5LnrGJVzo/N4mPvIswJu7XAn+Vlg=; b=5VhNGRTEHb46YVjKWEXfMV2Bf2Vki0Kf10vQeJEWNF4r2to2SSesiUVrVRxPgN9bkc sRNvqo2dzolVPFH7mQfubPn9gojF2+yeuMGVC8qxDopwiWxpkLvYmiVofNkTedcsWVJp vu+2XhGcTOzKOUDSLjMA4ejBN6kpoep012lr7hGeOc/IjZyH1WWacdKMFX8y3HscwuC1 jRpfMR9Ii7QUuWsjlqEnVTxcupLiXot8gAdWmcqwHdbYh3RoeJDVNJn852PXAAmCF4Xc go/Zy/SfXTTR/03EoVLJgvTb/03KQB5MtZ8Gy09Dyyy03N7QEPJrkigUcNRdZrwewh4n jujw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532iNRrya+maygOLBkZtPYrKlll668iBgdrhdadIuJLdJ/aVRb8A NGO1js08sdMvJOM/iupwvc0= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJz9DmuBi3BEw8UBUdzI8o3lLpoRf2UgfNMTTN6KUjJXWQ4sXdx1WPX8wfwS2Wt1BRrfD8JUxw== X-Received: by 2002:a1c:f416:: with SMTP id z22mr33961892wma.121.1638739706744; Sun, 05 Dec 2021 13:28:26 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from aspire-5942 (p200300d867192b00c52926ee7a2b0f66.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [2003:d8:6719:2b00:c529:26ee:7a2b:f66]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id s63sm9875800wme.22.2021.12.05.13.28.26 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sun, 05 Dec 2021 13:28:26 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <8735n6ojdb.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 05 Dec 2021 22:02:40 +0100") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:221669 Archived-At: >> 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. Thanks Lars! This fixes the issue! > 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.) Possibly. I'll keep reporting in case I find something else... Thanks again! -- Marco