From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Turning Gnus groups into real objects Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2019 09:40:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87k1cg5ujl.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87wogf8sei.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <87zhlb2per.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <877e8e89os.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <87ftn17tey.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87o91o7try.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <877e8c2mhe.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="207732"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eric Abrahamsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 21 15:41:19 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hpC5W-000rwn-9V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Jul 2019 15:41:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56074 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hpC5V-000060-B1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Jul 2019 09:41:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49128) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hpC5P-00005u-1h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jul 2019 09:41:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hpC5N-0006AA-Vh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jul 2019 09:41:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:41002) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hpC5N-00069i-Od for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jul 2019 09:41:09 -0400 Original-Received: from pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 9C8494451D2; Sun, 21 Jul 2019 09:41:08 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 69DD24451CF; Sun, 21 Jul 2019 09:41:07 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1563716467; bh=cF+wNqbD+baghQZ0EXhzBMQjzoZ70fRKjDKEMrfmAps=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=m1UcZQ5zXhQy+HvcOYgY1F/6PWwS2GrTRsEfhb6i1Xwj0qj19GDgFU7sadGuD0SX7 1Txbfa5CdxEBrR1wWsnnaAnLqlFXC9jcKcxqpk1AWW/x1jVHSq8KE+bH2gmQipnr+A w6KvLoN6gn54XFDg7J3j9YUdtzwAL3pKgSKC63gLmeeq4MNQ2Brc6kzk+LzbuWP+zb yT6fwNDsOORewQZBqeIXjA19RxSogPy+1iSVQLzvUguoJ5BzZXe73ksewYvl8g3sm4 qc8T9Kp+iyA+edKudpktdkQdrFUSSW3odPnTwxRnL/YPc9k3HnMlg6O6o7IIpZiZFR kK2D7md5xlPZg== Original-Received: from pastel (unknown [216.154.19.233]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 78DDA121491; Sun, 21 Jul 2019 09:41:00 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <877e8c2mhe.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Sat, 20 Jul 2019 18:41:01 -0700") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 132.204.25.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:238765 Archived-At: > (probably not), or b) adjust gnus-check-backend-function and > gnus-get-function to check if the server is a list or a struct and > dispatch to different kinds of functions. FWIW, cl-defmethod can also dispatch based on whether it's a struct or list, but I'm not sure so the "old-style" functionality could maybe be implemented as a kind of "compatibility backend of type `cons`"? Stefan