From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#33170: 27.0.50; interactive spec with cl-defgeneric/method Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 17:49:13 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87efccmjun.fsf@gmail.com> <83lg6jop6b.fsf@gnu.org> <87k1m3lg0k.fsf@gmail.com> <83woq3mopc.fsf@gnu.org> <87d0rva1fx.fsf@gmail.com> <83r2gbmksh.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1540676885 28082 195.159.176.226 (27 Oct 2018 21:48:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 21:48:05 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 33170@debbugs.gnu.org, Alex Branham To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 27 23:48:00 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gGWR6-0007Bk-Kv for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2018 23:48:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37908 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gGWTD-0004Pl-0a for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2018 17:50:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40057) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gGWT7-0004PV-94 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2018 17:50:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gGWT4-00077m-3p for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2018 17:50:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:41617) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gGWT3-00077g-Up for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2018 17:50:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gGWT3-0004IR-QU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2018 17:50:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 21:50:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 33170 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 33170-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B33170.154067695816458 (code B ref 33170); Sat, 27 Oct 2018 21:50:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 33170) by debbugs.gnu.org; 27 Oct 2018 21:49:18 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45875 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gGWSM-0004HO-D5 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2018 17:49:18 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:58640) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gGWSJ-0004HE-MU for 33170@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2018 17:49:16 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.7/8.14.1) with ESMTP id w9RLnEXi019865; Sat, 27 Oct 2018 17:49:14 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id C801864546; Sat, 27 Oct 2018 17:49:13 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83r2gbmksh.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 27 Oct 2018 19:11:42 +0300") X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered EDT_SA_DN_PASS=0, RV6405=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <6405> : inlines <6947> : streams <1802560> : uri <2739293> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:151716 Archived-At: >> > I don't think generic functions can be interactive. At least it is >> > not documented anywhere that they can be. >> Ah, that's unfortunate. Perhaps this limitation should be documented >> somewhere? > If Stefan (CC'ed) says it's a limitation and not a bug, I will > document it. AFAIC it's a limitation. We could support interactive specs, but I'm really not convinced it's worth the trouble. If using 2 functions (one generic and one interactive, which calls the generic one) is really annoying for some reason, I guess you could use (put ' 'interactive-form
) but I think this property should be deprecated, so don't tell anyone (especially don't tell me) that I even mentioned it to you, Stefan