From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: 25294@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25294: 26.0.50; Allow more catch-all values for cl-defmethod's &context plus major-mode specializer
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 19:08:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k1xserjr.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87374gstr8.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Mon, 11 Dec 2017 15:57:15 -0800")
Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> Ahem, I only just noticed (a year later) that there was a response to
> this when I searched for bug reports I'd opened -- sorry about that.
It's had lots of time to rest then :)
>> If you want to ignore the major mode, why do you want to use the
>> major-mode specializer?
>
> It's the equivalent of the "t" branch in a `cond' statement. You write
> methods to handle specific major modes, and write another method to
> handle the catch-all case of "all other modes".
Still not really convinced by this, what's wrong with the last way you
put in your OP:
(cl-defmethod example-method ())
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-12 0:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-29 19:13 bug#25294: 26.0.50; Allow more catch-all values for cl-defmethod's &context plus major-mode specializer Eric Abrahamsen
2016-12-30 4:35 ` npostavs
2017-12-11 23:57 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-12-12 0:08 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2017-12-12 1:39 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-12-12 1:43 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-12-12 5:42 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-12-12 23:58 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-12-14 0:06 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-12-14 21:01 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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