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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Generic functions: Specializers like `or' or `memq'?
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2021 01:26:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871r3wix5d.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87zgqkrerk.fsf@zoho.eu

Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> From the `cl-generic-generalizers' docstring:
>
>   It's called a generalizer because it takes a specific object
>   and returns a more general approximation, denoting a set of
>   objects to which it belongs.

And the relation and difference to specializers is?

Michael.




  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-04  0:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-03 17:17 Generic functions: Specializers like `or' or `memq'? Michael Heerdegen
2021-11-03 18:21 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-11-03 21:10   ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-11-03 21:32     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-11-03 23:19       ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-11-03 23:38         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-04  0:26           ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2021-11-04  1:31       ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-04  2:34         ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-04  4:01           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-06 22:32         ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-11-06 23:36           ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-07  1:48             ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-11-21 19:43               ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-23  8:16                 ` Michael Heerdegen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-11-04 17:31 Eric Abrahamsen
2021-11-05 21:17 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-05 21:36   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-06 23:29     ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-06 23:52       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor

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