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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: 29541@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29541: 27.0.50; Use generic function when restoring eieio-persistent, remove validation
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 22:28:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3lfxqohhf.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87shcsisdc.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Sat, 02 Dec 2017 16:10:07 -0800")

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> The attached patch is a proposal that would replace the function
> `eieio-persistent-convert-list-to-object' with a generic method
> `eieio-persistent-make-instance'. It also removes all slot validation in
> the read process.
>
> Considerations:
>
> 1. `object-write' is already a method. That means the writing process
> can be overridden and customized, but the reading process can't, which
> removes most of the benefit of being able to override the write. This
> would allow "matching" methods for writing and reading.

This makes sense, and having a method instead of a function here
certainly seems cleaner...

Did anybody with a deeper knowledge of the eieio machinery provide any
feedback?  It's a quite large patch...

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-24 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-03  0:10 bug#29541: 27.0.50; Use generic function when restoring eieio-persistent, remove validation Eric Abrahamsen
2019-06-24 20:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-08-10 14:05   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-28  1:40     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-08-28  1:41     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-08-28 14:18       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-28 15:24         ` Eric Abrahamsen

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