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From: Mario Lang <mlang@blind.guru>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: EIEIO default constructor function
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2021 05:50:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2e0rppp.fsf@blind.guru> (raw)

Hi.

While porting a CLOS based project over to Elisp, I notice that there
seems to be no way to disable the creation of a default constructor
function with `defclass'.  I am getting a redefinition warning because I
am defining my own "constructor" with the same name.  This is all just
naming-fu, i.e., I know I could just rename the class to avoid the
conflict.  But I am wondering: `make-instance' is a nice way of avoiding
namespace pollution if several classes are involved.  In other words,
avoiding the creation of yet another function might be desireable in
some situations.

So my question is, what is the rationale behind *always* creating a
wrapper for `make-instance'?  Am I missing something important?
Could we perhaps add some sort of class-option to disable the wrapper
creation?

-- 
CYa,
  ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕



             reply	other threads:[~2021-04-03  3:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-03  3:50 Mario Lang [this message]
2021-04-03 13:48 ` EIEIO default constructor function Stefan Monnier
2021-04-04  2:42   ` Mario Lang
2021-04-04  3:10     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-04  8:39       ` Mario Lang
2021-04-04 14:12         ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-08  3:37           ` Mario Lang
2021-04-08  4:44             ` Stefan Monnier

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