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 00:19:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877ddoj086.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87a6ilorh0.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net
Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> Is anyone else's brain incapable of maintaining the distinction between
> "specializer" and "generalizer"? I cannot remember which is which, or
> exactly how they differ, and its one of the major obstacles to me
> actually reading and understanding cl-generic.el.
The manual doesn't even mention the term "generalizer". I don't have a
clue. Is the term common in Common Lisp? The implementation in
cl-generic is hard to understand without some previous knowledge.
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-03 23:19 UTC|newest]
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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 [this message]
2021-11-03 23:38 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-04 0:26 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-11-04 1:31 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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2021-11-06 22:32 ` Michael Heerdegen
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2021-11-07 1:48 ` Michael Heerdegen
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2021-11-23 8:16 ` Michael Heerdegen
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